On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 13:12:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 04:28:52 UTC, Prudence wrote:
I thought about that but then I have to rely on the GC for
some simple things. Doesn't seem like the right way to go.
Since it is static, it will never be collected anyway, so you
could just use it and it'll work for convenience and probably
lose nothing, or very trivially write an append function that
uses any scheme you want instead of doing ~= on it without even
worrying about freeing it.
And that makes it worse!! If it's never collected and the GC
scans it every time, it means it adds a constant overhead to the
GC for absolutely no reason, right? It also then makes every
dependency on it GC dependent(@nogc can't be used)? It just seems
like it's the wrong way to go about it.
