On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 01:24:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/21/2014 5:39 PM, bearophile wrote:
That code must always be hard-real time. So a GC is allowed
only during startup
time (unless it's a quite special GC), hidden heap allocations
are forbidden,
data access patterns need to be carefully chosen, you even
have to use most of
the hot part of the stack, etc.
These are all very doable in D, and I've written apps that do
so. The "fear of GC" is completely overblown.
Fear of GC is overblown. Fear of D's GC isn't.