On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 18:21:05 UTC, Jonathan A Dunlap wrote:
You can also make use of library types for reference counting,
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#.RefCounted
And if you really, really need, also manual memory management
by calling the C functions and letting the GC know not to
track that memory.
http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#.GC.BlkAttr.NO_SCAN
Fascinating! I assume the Phobos RefCounted then avoids using
the GC by utilizing GC.malloc (NO_SCAN) behind the scenes?
Nope, just plain old malloc and free from core.stdc.stdlib
