On Jul 8, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:53:25 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
I wonder if one could somehow register a pre-existing thread with
std.concurrency, being careful not to introduce any reference that lets in
the garbage
On Jul 8, 2013, at 7:04 AM, John Colvin john.loughran.col...@gmail.com wrote:
I would post this in d.learn, but I suspect there isn't an easy answer so it
would be good to have some serious discussion here.
Is there any way to create a thread that is totally free from the garbage
I would post this in d.learn, but I suspect there isn't an easy
answer so it would be good to have some serious discussion here.
Is there any way to create a thread that is totally free from the
garbage collector?
I.e.
Nothing in that thread will ever be scanned by the GC.
Therefore, when
If you make a thread using the operating system functions
directly, D would never know (I'm pretty sure) and thus it won't
be on the gc nor the list the gc uses to pause all threads.
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:04:41 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
I would post this in d.learn, but I suspect there isn't an easy
answer so it would be good to have some serious discussion here.
Is there any way to create a thread that is totally free from
the garbage collector?
I.e.
Nothing in
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:11:16 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:04:41 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
I would post this in d.learn, but I suspect there isn't an
easy answer so it would be good to have some serious
discussion here.
Is there any way to create a thread that is totally
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:16:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:11:16 UTC, w0rp wrote:
We really need to implement a better GC. That's the very hard
but better solution.
We need to have a bchoice/b of GCs. There is no single
design that is right for every use case.
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:04:41 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
Is there any way to create a thread that is totally free from
the garbage collector?
Sure, just few pull request here, some pull requests there... ;)
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:11:15 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
If you make a thread using the operating system functions
directly, D would never know (I'm pretty sure) and thus it
won't be on the gc nor the list the gc uses to pause all
threads.
Huh. Well that was easy. Presumably that means I
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 14:53:25 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
I wonder if one could somehow register a pre-existing thread
with std.concurrency, being careful not to introduce any
reference that lets in the garbage collector.
There is a thread_attachThis() in core.thread that Registers the
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