On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts
dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is
finding the right name.
An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from
Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better
than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc,
but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will
contain a variety of things in addition to reference
counting-related artifacts.
Ideas?
Andrei
std.experimental.mm ?
mm => memory management
It would be interesting to know what you plan on putting in
there. There's a few functions that duplicate utility in Phobos
but one allocates and the other doesn't — e.g, lineSplitter.
lineSplitter is 4-5x faster than the equivalent GC
version(splitLines) according to my benchmarks.
I think one of the bigger issues with Phobos using the GC isn't
that it uses the GC, but many functions allocate far more than
they need to. I've seen Rust referred to as too focused on memory
management(in fact, I think it was you that referred to Rust as
this) but I think D sometimes goes in the opposite direction
making it too easy to forget about memory management and just
allocate everywhere because it's very implicit.
Bye.
