W dniu 07.06.2013 07:28, Tyler Jameson Little pisze:
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.
If the nogc marker could be used to overload functions then Phobos may
include both versions of the code - GC and non GC - as some code may run
faster under GC. The calling function would pick up the right one.
