On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 17:30:54 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 11:40:37 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
And why does Phobos/runtime require the GC in so many cases
when
it could just use an internal buffer? So much effort has been
put
in to make the GC work that it simply has neglected all those
that can't use it as it is.
This is the crux of the problem. It's not so much that D uses
garbage collection as that Phobos is built in a way that
prevents the reuse of existing buffers. It becomes much harder
to sell the language to a GC averse group if it turns out they
can't use the standard library as well. Though I guess Tango
is an option here as a replacement.
Right, and because of the mentality that the GC is one size that
fits all, phobos got this way. That mentality is still pervasive.
I call it laziness.
I think that at some point phobos will need to be rewritten...
maybe more .net like(there sense of hierarchy and presentation is
excellent). Maybe D needs a proper allocator sub system built in
to get to that point?
