On Friday, 14 April 2023 at 17:31:02 UTC, backtrack wrote:
however the memory is not releasing.
With the D GC, your object can have three state:
- reachable by GC. If D code can see the reference, then it's
"alive", kept alive by GC scanning. The GC finds the reference
and doesn't touch it. This is the invariant that you need to
maintain when interacting with C.
- unreachable by GC and thus at a risk of being reclaimable at
next GC collect.
This happens when all your references are null.
If you want immediate destructor, call .destroy() before
nulling your references so that the object can't be scanned. By
calling destroy() on all your objects manually, you can reach
destruction determinism.
- non-existing, memory has been reclaimed. You don't
necessarily need to do that with __delete, this should be very
rare even. If the references to the object are null, then their
destructor will eventually be called if it wasn't already with
.destroy, the memory eventually reclaimed. Usually you don't need
to care about that state.
