Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-10-23 Thread Rob T
On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 at 10:28:29 UTC, bearophile wrote: SomeDude: It's a bad solution imho. Monitoring the druntime and hunting every part that allocates until our codebase is correct like Benjamen Thaut is a much better solution Why do you think such hunt is better than letting the

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-10-23 Thread Rob T
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 16:30:41 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote: Here a small update: I found a piece of code that did manually slow down the simulation in case it got to fast. This code never kicked in with the GC version, because it never reached the margin. The manual memory managed vers

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 23:43:27 SomeDude wrote: > Yeqh, but I haven't pledged yet :o > > Promise I will :) So, does that mean that you're pledging to pledge? ;) - Jonathan M Davis

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread SomeDude
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:26:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:15:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: 1/4 of the money raised in 2 days. I expect the speed will slow down significantly because most the D followers would have already seen it in the first couple days

Re: Alex Rønne Petersen joins phobos and druntime

2012-10-23 Thread Daniel Kozak
On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 18:33:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello all, Please join me in congratulating Alex Rønne Petersen for joining the phobos and druntime committers on github. Alex has been a very active contributor to D, particularly druntime. We hope his prolific particip

Re: Mono-D v0.4.1.6

2012-10-23 Thread alex
On Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 20:39:17 UTC, F i L wrote: On Sunday, 21 October 2012 at 17:37:17 UTC, alex wrote: This behaviour is terribly inreproducable..Sometimes it tends to not have any plan of what I'm typing, but mostly (and quite only) it actually knows what I want to have in my compl

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 10/23/2012 4:34 AM, jerro wrote: Perhaps FSF would help or some other open-source funding organisation? Wouldn't FSF have issues with the reference implementation's back end not being free software? GDC is free software, and the rights were assigned to the FSF a year ago.

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Walter Bright
On 10/22/2012 10:32 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11wkr7/the_d_conference_2013_is_raising_funds_via/ Weird - the comments disappeared.

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-10-23 Thread Benjamin Thaut
Here a small update: I found a piece of code that did manually slow down the simulation in case it got to fast. This code never kicked in with the GC version, because it never reached the margin. The manual memory managed version however did reach the margin and was slowed down. With this piec

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread deadalnix
Le 23/10/2012 16:26, Adam D. Ruppe a écrit : On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:15:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: 1/4 of the money raised in 2 days. I expect the speed will slow down significantly because most the D followers would have already seen it in the first couple days... Obviously, you ca

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/23/12 10:26 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:15:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: 1/4 of the money raised in 2 days. I expect the speed will slow down significantly because most the D followers would have already seen it in the first couple days... Yah. On the other h

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:15:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: 1/4 of the money raised in 2 days. I expect the speed will slow down significantly because most the D followers would have already seen it in the first couple days...

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread deadalnix
Le 22/10/2012 19:25, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf 2013. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 Please pledge your support and encourage your friends to do the same. Hop

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread jerro
Perhaps FSF would help or some other open-source funding organisation? Wouldn't FSF have issues with the reference implementation's back end not being free software?

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Dejan Lekic
On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 11:23:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/23/12 7:10 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: I have been a committee member of the UK AUA (http://www.iua.org.uk) and I know that the best way to get funding is to find good sponsors. That is my recommendation to you, Andrei. -

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/23/12 7:10 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: I have been a committee member of the UK AUA (http://www.iua.org.uk) and I know that the best way to get funding is to find good sponsors. That is my recommendation to you, Andrei. - Try hard to find sponsors for the DConf. Perhaps FSF would help or some ot

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Dejan Lekic
On Monday, 22 October 2012 at 17:25:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf 2013. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 Please pledge your support and encourage your friends

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/22/12 10:26 PM, xenon325 wrote: On Monday, 22 October 2012 at 17:25:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 Typo on the front page: "Some of use are lucky to already use ..." ^ Ouch. Fixed, thanks m