On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
"C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law"
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804
The question that remains, is how scalable and tunable is "D's GC
implementation" to my programming needs (whatever they might
happen to be).
It seems to me, that most GC implementations assume particular
things about the environment in which they're operating, whereas
I think that the programmer should be able to tell the GC about
the environment in which it's operating, and the GC can adjust
its parameter to that environment (e.g real time collection,
generational collection, regional collection, etc...).
To the extent that a particular type of GC implementation forces
its particular model onto the programmer, that I think, is a real
limitation of GC.
That's why I believe manual memory management, much like the
language C, will be around for a long time to come.
