• Denis Washington <Denis_member pathlink.com> May 01 2005
• "Ben Hinkle" <ben.hinkle gmail.com> May 01 2005
• Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> May 02 2005

Denis Washington <Denis_member pathlink.com> writes:

I'm suggesting to write an OS with D, and have one big question: does the D
garbage-collector require multi-threading? Does it run in it's own thread?

"Ben Hinkle" <ben.hinkle gmail.com> writes:

"Denis Washington" <Denis_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:d52r38$2obn$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I'm suggesting to write an OS with D, and have one big question: does the 
 D
 garbage-collector require multi-threading? Does it run in it's own thread?


The garbage collector does not require multi-threading and currently a 
collection is run in the thread that made the allocation request. Other 
garbage collectors could run in a separate thread, though - the language 
makes no assumption the issue. 

Sean Kelly <sean f4.ca> writes:

In article <d52r38$2obn$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Denis Washington says...
I'm suggesting to write an OS with D, and have one big question: does the D
garbage-collector require multi-threading? Does it run in it's own thread?


No, and no, respectively :)  The GC is run when you call 'new' and it's run in
the context of the calling thread.


Sean