On Thursday, 11 November 2021 at 00:11:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:39:40PM +0000, forkit via
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: [...]
I still remember compiling code on my 286x86 ... talk about
low memory..whoaaah.
...
But if you're in a time-constrained inner loop, you do *not*
want to be allocating memory without a second thought, lest you
provoke the ire of the GC and get a stop-the-world pause in the
wrong moment. E.g., when your radiotherapy dosage controller
is just about to shut off the radiation beam, and the extra
pause can mean death from overdose. :-P
..
Silly me.. if only I had used v2.098.0 ... I might still be alive.
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.098.0.html#forkgc
