In all honesty till now I haven't really thought deeply about
memory allocation, I just assumed that malloc, free, and so on
where low level operating system functions and that was that.
I've heard people in the D community talk about garbage
collection, and memory allocation but I didn't think it was
something I had to worry about.
A lot of the work I do is statistics and data science based,
often speed is important, calculations on arrays involve a lot of
array instantiation, moving and copying elements and so forth. As
far as all that stuff goes the speed of memory operations is
important. The fact that I could get those kinds of operations to
run faster using D's GC.malloc and different types of iteration
is significant. Today it hit me that I actually need to study
memory allocation and possibly garbage collection as topics - not
so that I can implement a garbage collector, but so that I can
write faster code.
I know to everyone here that's just basic stuff, but it's a bit
of a revelation for me. :-)
