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? Has
anyone benchmarked an application using D's GC versus using
RefCounted for critical paths?
I highly advice not to use the NO_SCAN unless you really know
what you are doing. Not that the GC will trigger only when enough
memory is allocated, so if you deallocate most memory manually,
the GC won't trigger often.
