On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 08:12:25 UTC, Mike wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 06:58:42 UTC, Tom wrote:
Or is there now the possibility of disabling the GC altogether,
or replacing it with a refcounting 'GC' etc?
You can disable the GC:
http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 07:43:35 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 06:58:41 +, Tom wrote:
Or is there now the possibility of disabling the GC
altogether, or replacing it with a refcounting 'GC' etc?
you still can do manual memory management with `malloc()` and
friends. but
On Wednesday, 26 October 2016 at 16:15:19 UTC, Tom wrote:
My apologies for posting a question and then disappearing for
eighteen months. I thought it might be useful if I posted some
feedback here.
We ended up going with Lua here. The main point in favour was
the iterative GC which can be i
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 11:54:54 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On 01/28/2015 09:12 AM, Mike wrote:
Note that D has 3 built-in types: exceptions, dynamic arrays,
and
associative arrays, that may be difficult to use without the
GC:
http://dlang.org/builtin.html.
4 actually, if you count del
On 01/28/2015 09:12 AM, Mike wrote:
Note that D has 3 built-in types: exceptions, dynamic arrays, and
associative arrays, that may be difficult to use without the GC:
http://dlang.org/builtin.html.
4 actually, if you count delegate closures.
http://dlang.org/function.html#closures
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 07:43:35 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 06:58:41 +, Tom wrote:
Or is there now the possibility of disabling the GC
altogether, or
replacing it with a refcounting 'GC' etc?
you still can do manual memory management with `malloc()` and
friends.
but
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 06:58:42 UTC, Tom wrote:
Or is there now the possibility of disabling the GC altogether,
or replacing it with a refcounting 'GC' etc?
You can disable the GC:
http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#.GC.disable
There is a RefCounted struct in the standard l
http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#.GC.disable ?
Some people including myself write D with only minimal runtime
(bare metal profile). Is it what you're looking for?
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 06:58:41 +, Tom wrote:
> Or is there now the possibility of disabling the GC altogether, or
> replacing it with a refcounting 'GC' etc?
you still can do manual memory management with `malloc()` and friends.
but you must be very cautious with dynamic arrays and slices. may
