On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:12:39 +0200, Gor Gyolchanyan
<[email protected]> wrote:
I got the point.
This boils down to the same issue of "is the feature worth changing
the language".
a GraphicsCardAllocator would still be very useful, even if it would
force you to use custom array types.
You can use any raw memory as array using the pointer slice expression.
Appending won't work out of the box of course.
Have a look at druntime rt.lifetime. You could possibly write a gc proxy
wrapper
and add a flag to the BlkInfoAttr. Then you're able to intercept those
(re)allocations.
I looked at the programming paradigms, that D added on top of those,
taken from C++, including improved generic programming, generative
programming, functional programming...
And thought, that it would be a very good idea to add
hardware-distributed programming.
Even if it would be purely library solution.
What i mean is an integration of D with OpenCL: a very easy way to
switch the memory and processing between required devices.
We could have a compile-time functions, that translate D code into
OpenCL kernels and perform all necessary setup at program start-up.
You'd feed the D modules in the templates and the templates would
generate the necessary code to make the module run on desired
hardware.
We all know, that an OpenCL binding for D will come along eventually
(if not already done).
It would be very nice to further improve it's usability, using D's
unique language features.
What do you think?
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Kagamin <[email protected]> wrote:
Gor Gyolchanyan Wrote:
I have a question about switching to 100% manual memory management.
I know how it should be done with structs and classes: override the
new and delete.
But i don't know how to do it for arrays, associative arrays, stack
frames for delegates and all other instances of implicit memory
allocation.
Is there a way to completely override all memory allocations, so that
i can use the language to the fullest in performance-critical places?
Cheers,
Gor.
allocation is done by druntime, which is opensource, you can rewrite it
to anything you want.
