On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 09:50:34PM +0100, Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On 04/03/2019 12:12, KnightMare wrote: [...] > > 3) closures: do the closures have any internal types that helps to > > GC or are they (full closure memory block) scanned as in the > > conservative mode? > > No type information is generated for closures by the compiler, so > these are always scanned conservatively. [...]
Just out of curiosity, how hard would it be for the compiler to emit type information for closures? Given the prevalence of the range-based idiom in D, I'd think this is a worthwhile area for GC improvements. T -- One Word to write them all, One Access to find them, One Excel to count them all, And thus to Windows bind them. -- Mike Champion
