On 03-10-2012 23:26, DypthroposTheImposter wrote:
D is pretty cool, perhaps someday I can use it instead of C++ and
have cool shit like fast build times, modules, no more bloody headers,
sane templates, CTFE, UFCS etc
But can the D GC ever be made:
1. precise
Yes. Work is being done.
2. able to scale to large-ish data set(2gig+)
Parallel marking is perfectly possible even with a conservative GC. I've
been meaning to look into this.
3. No long stalls(anything over a couple millisecond(<3))
A (non-real time) GC can't really make guarantees about pause times.
While having a real time GC might be nice, it'd take an incredible
amount of engineering effort.
Q. Curious, would it be compacting?
In theory, it is possible to do this for some heap objects, but I
suspect that it would do more harm than good in a systems language.
If not then I'm stuck not using it much--
Which leaves me with structs, and lets just say D struct are not
impressive--
?
* Oh and on a totally unrelated note, D needs Multiple return values.
Lua has it, it's awesome. D doesn't want to be left out does it?
Use tuples. Multiple return values (as far as ABI goes) are impractical
because every major compiler back end (GCC, LLVM, ...) would have to be
adjusted for every architecture.
* OpCmp returning an int is fugly I r sad
It's a sensible design decision. What would be the alternative?
* why is haskell so much shorter syntax, can D get that nice syntax
plssssssssss
D is a C-family language.
STAB!
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Alex Rønne Petersen
a...@lycus.org
http://lycus.org
