On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 18:22:54 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
On 05/23/2013 08:13 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
Now I'm wondering what can be done to foster this newly
acquired credibility in
games. By far the biggest issue I hear about when it comes to
people working on
games in D is the garbage collector. You can work around the
GC without too
much difficulty as Manu's experience shared in his DConf talk
shows but a lot of
people new to D don't know how to do that. We could also use
some tools and
guides to help people identify and avoid GC use when necessary.
As a starting point, do we have a list of the Phobos functions
that allocate
using GC when there's no need to? That's a concern of Manu's
that it ought to
be possible to address relatively swiftly if the information is
to hand.
I think that's where Johannes Pfau's -vgc can come in and help.
The phobos unit tests have pretty good coverage so building those
with -vgc would, in theory, point out the vast majority of places
in phobos that use the gc.
