On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 10:07:18 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
On Tuesday, 8 July 2014 at 09:57:15 UTC, Oluca wrote:
- No, it can't be disabled if you want to keep using
"impressive
features" of the language.
What do CTFE, mixins, Ds powerful template mechanism, immutable
+
slices, sane operator overloading, opDispatch, alias this and
UFCS, RAII + scope statements to do with the GC?
Long story short, if you prefer to manage your own god-damn
memory manually, D isn't the way to go. No sir, you are stuck
with an inefficient GC.
They've been improving the GC for years,
but it's still not good enough.
How does the quality of the GC even matter if you're not going
to use it?
- You can't use slices. You can't make use of most of the
Standard Library functionality.
- It matters, because you can't manually manage life-time of the
objects. See, you have to keep a reference to a C-String that you
send to a C function, otherwise GC will eat it up, because it
can't know better than you, yet tries to do your job. GC will
always stand in the way, and if you want to turn it off, as I
stated above, D becomes a less useful language.
