On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 05:48:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/2/2013 8:36 PM, js.mdnq wrote:
On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 23:09:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/2/2013 3:00 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 3/2/13, Dicebot <m.stras...@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, I have never known something like that exists! Is there
description of what it actually does or source code is only
possible reference. Depending on actual limitations, it may
be a
game changer.
I had alook, all it does is avoids generating moduleinfo.
I'm not sure
how that helps, the GC still works with this switch.
By not generating moduleinfo, which needs phobos to work, it
can link with C
only.
But isn't there a few language constructs the specifically
rely on the GC?
Yes, and those will fail to link.
I think original we started with dmd being GC dependent and that
this causes problems for some platforms. To move dmd to d source
and be more platform independent one would need the core spec to
be GC independent. IIRC arrays depend on the GC for cleanup and
therefore this would need to be changed to allow arrays in the
core. Really what is needed is gc arrays and ngc arrays as well
as other essential features. e.g., gc arrays would not be part of
the core spec while ngc arrays would.
