On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:59:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/30/14, 1:57 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:45:57 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
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? --
One class, many instances (one for every chunk of data sent or
received).
The question is, how comfortable are you with today's reality
that some of those instances may be never destroyed? -- Andrei
I'm fine with it. The proxy objects are purposefully as small as
possible, to make false references (and thus, memory leaks)
unlikely, even on 32 bits. If I was concerned with it, I'd have
switched to reference counting as soon as it was possible.
