On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:13:01PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: [...] > Some basic things are tied into druntme/phobos. The GC is definitely > one of them. AIUI, Arrays and AAs have been moving to a druntime-based > implementation, and the Object class is implemented there. > > Technically, you can use D without druntime/phobos. Hell, druntime > itself is implemented in D. And I've even done it myself ages ago ( > https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/d-on-gba-nds-progress-thanks-to-oopman > ) . But you'd be limited to a relatively small C-like subset of the > langauge (which I'd argue *can* still be worthwhile in cases where C > is your only other option - like low-power embedded stuff). [...]
I've been toying with the idea of an AA implementation that doesn't' need the GC... Basically translate it to work with explicit malloc/free instead of the GC. But currently I'm already maxed out fixing my AA replacement for druntime, so I don't think I'll get to that in the near future. (It's true that they say about the last 10% of a project needing 90% of the time... I *thought* my AA implementation was close to being ready to integrate into druntime, but that last 10% is turning into a huge project in and of itself. (Several compiler bugs later. ;-) (Hey, at least I'm helping to weed out dmd bugs! (Gah, I'm starting to Lisp, better stop now!)))) T -- PNP = Plug 'N' Pray
