On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 03:19:18 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 03:10:32 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
In D some very important things like exceptions depend on GC.
This is a common misconception. Exceptions do not have to use
the GC, they just often are. All you have to do is malloc an
exception and then throw it, and then remember to free it after
you catch it up the call stack.
The Phobos developers made the decision to use the GC in order
to be @safe rather than fast.
Exceptions and memory allocation are a pain to use anyway. When
you call a function that calls a function that calls a function,
and you get an Exception, how do you know how to properly
deallocate it ?
And it's not just the Exception Object itself, usually you also
have to allocate at least a string for the Exception message.
