On Saturday, 19 November 2022 at 19:16:41 UTC, Jack Pope wrote:
On Thursday, 17 November 2022 at 22:05:45 UTC, jwatson-CO-edu
wrote:
[`Atom`](https://github.com/jwatson-CO-edu/SPARROW/blob/main/lil_schemer.d#L66)
(unit of data), I throw it on the heap and never bother to delete it. [...]
If you wish to automatically de-allocate the oldest atoms, one
approach might be to put them in a ring buffer. Its size will
affect the relative time needed for deleting and overwriting
the oldest elements. You can hard code the size based on
experimentation or allow ongoing automatic adjustment based on
some formula.
I think there are some interesting ring buffer packages in the
DUB registry.
Thank you, but I do not think the atoms will be freed in order,
especially those holding user-defined functions. A ring buffer
would be more appropriate for processing items in a stream or for
otherwise implementing a queue.
