On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 11:36:51 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:

> So, (does anyone know) has this technique been discarded for D or is it 'just' a matter of the resources to do it?

From the literature on this topic I remember attempts for automatic region inference mostly failed: it lead to some small regions here and there that didn't affect anything much and then one huge region where most of the data landed, requiring a full-blown GC inside that big region. Making it work in D, where everything can be mutated by anything and any type system wall is a cast() away from breaking, seems virtually impossible.

On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 12:02:40 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 11:36:51 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote:
>
>> So, (does anyone know) has this technique been discarded for D or is it 'just' a matter of the resources to do it?
>
> From the literature on this topic I remember attempts for automatic region inference mostly failed: it lead to some small regions here and there that didn't affect anything much and then one huge region where most of the data landed, requiring a full-blown GC inside that big region. Making it work in D, where everything can be mutated by anything and any type system wall is a cast() away from breaking, seems virtually impossible.

Mmm yes I can imagine that being the case... oh well!