On Saturday, 25 February 2012 at 22:08:31 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 25.02.2012 21:26, schrieb Peter Alexander:
On Saturday, 25 February 2012 at 20:13:42 UTC, so wrote:
On Saturday, 25 February 2012 at 18:47:12 UTC, Nick
Sabalausky wrote:
Interesting. I wish he'd elaborate on why it's not an option
for his
daily
work.
Not the design but the implementation, memory management
would be the
first.
Memory management is not a problem. You can manage memory just
as easily
in D as you can in C or C++. Just don't use global new, which
they'll
already be doing.
I couldn't agree more.
The GC issue comes around often, but I personally think that
the main
issue is that the GC needs to be optimized, not that manual
memory management is required.
Most standard compiler malloc()/free() implementations are
actually slower than most advanced GC algorithms.
If you require realtime performance then you don't use either the
GC or malloc/free. You allocate blocks up front and use those
when you need consistent high performance.
It doesn't matter how optimised the GC is. The eventual
collection is inevitable and if it takes anything more than a
small fraction of a second then it will be too slow for realtime
use.
