On 30/04/12 01:03, Manu wrote:
On 30 April 2012 01:24, Tove <t...@fransson.se <mailto:t...@fransson.se>> wrote:On Sunday, 29 April 2012 at 22:13:22 UTC, Manu wrote: Is it technically possible to have a precise GC clean up all unreferenced memory in one big pass? yes, but unless it's also moving/compacting... one would suffer memory fragmentation... so I would imagine TempAlloc is a better fit? In some cases I'm comfortable with that type of fragmentation (large regularly sized resources), although that leads me to a gaping hole in D's allocation system... <OT, but still very important> There is no way to request aligned memory. I can't even specify an alignment on a user type and expect it to be aligned if I create one on the stack, let alone the heap >_< It seems I can request alignment for items within a struct, but I can't align the struct its self. In addition, a struct doesn't inherit the alignment of its aligned members, so the struct is allocated unaligned, and the aligned member fails its promise anyway.
Bug 2278.
