On Saturday, 28 June 2025 at 07:21:36 UTC, Doigt wrote:
On Friday, 20 June 2025 at 19:23:57 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
The idea for this came while reading some comments on a
Discord server:
yeah, people use D, but then go 'GC' is evil hurr durr
nogc this nogc that
like why
I wonder who said that huh
Anyone working in the low latency/interactive field, including
game developers, will tell you the same things: GCs are bad, you
need to prepare ahead of time, and you should reuse your buffers
and objects.
Although there are many counter-examples that fully utilize the
GC, it's generally minimized because the majority of the work is
done in C, C++, or Rust.
The general rule, which applies to both malloc and GC, is to
avoid allocating unless absolutely required.
