On Sunday, 6 December 2020 at 05:29:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad
wrote:
On Sunday, 6 December 2020 at 05:16:26 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
How difficult would it be to add a, selectable, low-latency GC
to dlang?
Is it closer to "we cant get there from here" or "no big deal
if you already have the low-latency GC in hand"?
I've heard Walter mention performance issues (write barriers
IIRC). I'm also interested in the GC-flavor performance trade
offs but here I'm just asking about feasibility.
The only reasonable option for D is single threaded GC or ARC.
OK. Some rationale? Do you, for example, believe that
no-probable-dlanger could benefit from a low-latency GC? That it
is too hard to implement? That the language is somehow
incompatible? That ...