On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 23:43:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 at 18:03:44 UTC, Peter Campbell
wrote:
Andrei mentioned at his DConf presentations is that the
runtime itself will be modified to not rely on the GC,
allowing for you to continue using features such as
associative arrays and array concatenation, but without
requiring the garbage collector. Is my understanding correct?
I haven't heard anything about that, and I doubt it would
happen. How would you actually manage the memory? The
front-facing api there doesn't offer any access to it.
But, of course, it is quite easy to write your own types that
do the same stuff (including operator overloading, of course)
that do expose memory management, and you can use those with or
without the runtime.
The first time I heard about this was the DConf 2016 keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oDK91E3VKs&feature=youtu.be&t=2023
Andrei discusses a reference counting based approach however
there are requirements which make it difficult to implement in
the runtime. It's also mentioned in both the 2017 vision
documents on the wiki.
