On 4/30/14, 1:31 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:21:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I have had a long chat in which we figured our current
offering of abstractions could be improved. Here are some thoughts.
There's a lot of work ahead of us on that and I wanted to make sure
we're getting full community buy-in and backup.
First off, we're considering eliminating destructor calls from within
the GC entirely. It makes for a faster and better GC, but the real
reason here is that destructors are philosophically bankrupt in a GC
environment. I think there's no need to argue that in this community.
The GC never guarantees calling destructors even today, so this
decision would be just a point in the definition space (albeit an
extreme one).
An extreme one indeed, it would break a lot of my code. Every D project
I wrote that does networking manages memory using a class that resides
on the managed heap, but holds the actual wrapped data in the unmanaged
heap.
So should I take it those classes all have destructors? -- Andrei
