On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:01:47 -0300, Daniel Oberhoff
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2010-04-07 20:40:27 +0200, Sean Kelly <[email protected]> said:
It's still possible to build druntime with a custom GC. You can even
have a "GC" that simply calls malloc/free if you avoid coding that
relies on implicit collection of discarded memory. See gc_stub for an
example. As for better GC implementations, there are a bunch of
options, but I don't know that we can go so far as an incremental
collector ala Java. That D can call C code causes problems there.
ah, I had been thinking about that. actually, you can call c code from
java and .net. The point is that you have to take care about the memory
you pass into the c function, and that which you get out. so there must
be a sane way, right?
Best
Daniel
Nope, not really. .NET C integration is done via message passing (aka
marshaling) or via COM objects. I would hazard Java does it similarly.
This is both slow, inefficient and somewhat limiting. Furthermore, given
that all too often you have to manually write custom marshallers, its also
a big pain in the butt. Beyond C, D also supports assembler as a core
language feature.
