Concurrent GC

[jasonwilliams]

Hey great project

Do you have any plans to support a concurrent GC?
I think this was attempted in rust-gc, but they gave up :/

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/09/01/designing-a-gc-in-rust/#concurrency
Manishearth/rust-gc#6

For context, i maintain https://github.com/jasonwilliams/boa which is a user of rust-gc, concurrent GC is something we may wish for in future.

[zesterer]

No specific plans, but I wouldn't object to working with someone trying to implement it. As I understand from my admittedly limited research, the mechanisms required to safely implement concurrent cleanup are quite complex. I'll have a think about whether this could be done in a simple manner.