This would make D the truely universal language it was
intended to be.
I'd love to see that! I think that Phobos code that makes
allocations can be divided (duplicated) to manual and GC
versions.
I thought I read somewhere about a marker for functions that
don't need the GC (similar to @safe, but more hardcore; @nogc?),
but I don't recall any real consensus about it. I'd really like
that, especially since I'm interested in D mostly for game dev.
Currently, the GC sucks in a lot of ways, but even if D got a
real concurrent, precise GC, I think I'd still want to have
functions I can rely on not allocating in a critical path.
I'd be happy to contribute some fixes to the standard lib if we
got some kind of marker for functions that don't need a GC.
Ideally, none of Phobos would rely on the GC, but it seems an
unnecessary burden, especially since significant portions can be
made to not rely on the GC.
