On Thursday, 6 May 2021 at 22:35:38 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:
Is a fixed length array created on the heap and a dynamic array on the stack ? And is this important with relation to the garbage collector ?
Static arrays (`T[N]`) are value types, like structs. If you declare them as local variables, they're allocated on the stack.
Dynamic arrays (`T[]`), also known as slices, are reference types, consisting of a pointer and a length. If you declare them as local variables, the pointer and length will be stored on the stack. The data they point to, however, may be stored on either the stack or the heap.
For more information about slices in D, I highly recommend this excellent article by Steven Schveighoffer:
https://dlang.org/articles/d-array-article.html
