On Saturday, 20 September 2014 at 16:15:45 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
We need to explore that. A possibility is to support
coexistence and then have the option to use a tool statically
pinpoint the uses of GC. -- Andrei
What, *exactly*, does "uses of GC" mean? In other words, what
specifically makes GC.malloc evil that must be avoided at any
cost while C malloc (+ GC.addRange most likely) is an acceptable
replacement?
A few things that come to mind are:
1) Obviously, GC.malloc can trigger a collection. But this can be
easily disabled.
2) The GC lock? I don't know how malloc handles this though.
3) Is GC.free substantially different than C's free?
4) Programmers don't typically explicitly free GC memory... but
we could.
5) Bookkeeping overhead? I know malloc has some too though, is
this really a dealbreaker?
6) Public relations.
...that's all I can think of. What am I missing? Which one of
these is actually causing the problem that we're supposed to be
fixing here?
