On Sunday, 13 September 2015 at 15:35:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
the GC heavily. And the reality of the matter is that the vast
majority of programs will have _no_ problems with using the GC
so long as they don't use it heavily. Programming like you're
in Java and allocating everything on the heap will kill
performance, but idiomatic D code doesn't do that, and Phobos
doesn't do that. Far too many programmers freak out at the
thought of D even having a GC and overreact thinking that they
have to root it out completely, when there really is no need
to. Plenty of folks how written highly performant code in D
using the GC. You just have to avoid doing a lot of allocating
and make sure you track down unwanted allocations when you have
a performance problem.
I don't understand this argument. Even if the GC heap only
contains a single live object, you still have to scan ALL memory
that contains pointers.
So how does programming like you do in Java affect anything
related to the GC?
Or are you saying that finalization is taking up most of the time?
