Is there anywhere to track the progress of the new GC system? Freezing tends to interfere with other thread-safe methodologies (as the original article on freezing suggests), so the fact that the K/N team suggested that the new GC will not require freezing is helpful. In May, they estimated a dev preview would be available by end of Summer, which is getting close.
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russhwolf
08/02/2021, 3:46 PM
It's not documented but you can try it out in 1.5.30-M1. Need to pass
-memory-model experimental
as compiler args
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Landry Norris
08/02/2021, 3:47 PM
Thank you. I'll try this out. Do you happen to know where you found out about this arg? I'd like to be able to track the progress of this.
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russhwolf
08/02/2021, 3:50 PM
If you want to watch a ticket, I don't know anything better than the roadmap at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42296 which doesn't go into detail. I found the flag from a mention in a coroutines issue somewhere. I expect we'll hear more about it closer to 1.5.30 release but we'll see