BCS wrote:
Hello Andrei,
It's reasonable to say that you decide at application design level
what memory management approach you want to choose. That doesn't
fragment the community. The decision is similar to many others made at
the same level: libraries used, build flags, target platform(s),
pointer size (32 vs. 64, not an option yet for dmd), etc.
IIRC you can right now point to code that makes the memory management
choice at a much finer level: lots of graphics and other types of RT
code have large chunks of code that do zero allocation (they don't even
uses malloc) but rather keep externally supplied buffers around to work
with.
Nonono. That's not a memory management choice. It's a choice to avoid
any memory management altogether.
In D where detecting allocations is harder than just greping for
malloc, having compiler support would be really nice.
I don't think the language needs to cater to all special needs. Tomorrow
someone comes and says they don't want to deal with unsigned integers.
Oh wait...
Andrei
