On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 02:20:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei posted this on another thread. I felt it deserved its
own thread. It's very important.
[...]
* The garbage collector eliminates probably 60% of potential
users right off.
Curious of the progress/plan for RC. From the autodecode thread
sounds like RC-string is still in the works. How's that effort
coming along? I am guessing it may be guiding the implementation
of an RC design for D. If you and Andrei have a working design
perhaps it could be shared (no pressure, just curious since it is
a tough problem to solve). Perhaps sharing a plan on this front
could dispel some of the negativity attached to the GC?
As an aside, I am not opposed to garbage collection. Working with
D the little that I have has helped me to be understand better
how to avoid allocating memory and how allocation works with
memory management algorithms. That is great. But I still do not
have a clear idea of how to completely avoid GC and do just
manual memory management in D. Perhaps a short tutorial of this
could be presented front-and-center on the website.
Joe
