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bson
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 Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 9:19 am Post subject: Garbage-Collector In Own Thread??? |
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| One question: does the D garbage-collector run in an own thread, or does it require multi-threading for any other reason??? I'm suggesting to write an operating system in D, so this is important. |
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jcc7
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Location: Muskogee, OK, USA
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I'm not sure what you're getting at, so I could be trying to answer the wrong question, but I think that the garbage collector runs in its own thread. From the specification: | Quote: | | All threads other than the collector thread must be halted while the collection is in progress. |
Since you mentioned your interest in writing an OS, I'd suggest you look at http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?KernelWithD if you haven't yet. It might be helpful information. |
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sean
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| The GC runs in the context of the thread that calls 'new'. Multithreading is not required, though you may need to modify Phobos if you want a single-threaded build. The GC code does some checking for a MULTI_THREADED version flag, but there may be other issues that have to be addressed. |
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