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?

"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.

In article <d52r38$2obn$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Denis Washington says...
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>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