On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 17:25:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I was listening to Andrei's talk this morning, but I didn't quite understand what he means by composable allocators. Is he talking about nesting, say, a GC inside a region allocated by a region allocator?
Maybe he was talking about a freelist allocator over a reap, as described by the HeapLayers project http://heaplayers.org/ in the paper from 2001 titled 'Composing High-Performance Memory Allocators'. I'm pretty sure that web site was referenced in the talk. A few publications there are from Andrei. I agree that D should support programming without a GC, with different GCs than the default one, and custom allocators, and that features which demand a GC will be troublesome. -- Brian
