On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 21:58:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 21:48:14 UTC, Prudence wrote:
Oh really?!?! I thought slicing used the GC? Is this a recent
development or always been that way?
Always been that way. A D slice is just a C pointer + length
packed together. A slice simply increments the pointer and/or
decrements the length - no allocation needed.
(btw the garbage collector is actually pretty nice, why are you
avoiding it anyway?)
Seems to be quite a lot of FUD wrt use of standard library and
GC, which means also perhaps we don't communicate this point very
well as a community. Making Phobos GC-optional perhaps is an
ultimate answer. But people seem to think that you're back to C
without the GC.
