On Sunday, 26 October 2014 at 03:37:47 UTC, Maxime
Chevalier-Boisvert wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if there have been updates regarding Andrei's
announcement that he would rewrite the D garbage collector. Is
there any kind of timeline for when a new version of the GC can
be expected?
I also wanted to ask if there was an implementation of an
object pool in the standard library. If not, I'm wondering what
the best way to implement this is. Is there any way to overload
new and destroy?
I was thinking of using the templated emplace operator from
std.conv to allocate class objects into a large flat array, and
to derive pool-allocated classes from a PoolObject base class.
This base class would contain linked list pointers to implement
a free list, as well as templated static methods to allocate
and free the objects. Any advice welcome.
Regarding the GC, the last I heard Andrei didn't have it at the
top of his to do list. He seems to be putting most of his effort
right now into completing the C++ integration. However, work on
the GC is still in high demand it would seem.
(I don't have any helpful answers for your other questions,
though.. sry!)
