On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 00:52:11 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I am vacillating - considering breaking a lifetime's C habits
and letting the D garbage collector make life wonderful by just
cleaning up after me and ruining my future C disciple by not
deleting stuff myself.
The tsv command line
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 00:52:11 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I don't know when the GC actually gets a chance to run.
Another alternative that I *think* (maybe someone who knows a bit
more about the gc can chime in?) would work is if you manually
stopped the gc then ran collections when
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 00:52:11 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
I am vacillating - considering breaking a lifetime's C habits
and letting the D garbage collector make life wonderful by just
cleaning up after me and ruining my future C disciple by not
deleting stuff myself.
It's not a panacea,
On 08/28/2017 06:25 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
I don't like the current format of the page
Apparently, I was looking for this one:
https://dlang.org/blog/the-gc-series/
Ali
I don't like the current format of the page (all articles are expanded
as opposed to being an index page) but there are currently four D blog
articles on GC and memory management:
https://dlang.org/blog/category/gc/
Ali
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 00:52:11 Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
> I am vacillating - considering breaking a lifetime's C habits and
> letting the D garbage collector make life wonderful by just
> cleaning up after me and ruining my future C disciple by not
> deleting stuff myself.
D's GC is stop the world (aka all threads) and does not run on its own
(requires being asked to collect).
It is only given the opportunity to collect when you allocate (new/more)
memory. It can decide not to, or to do so at any point making it very
unpredictable.
This is why we keep saying
I am vacillating - considering breaking a lifetime's C habits and
letting the D garbage collector make life wonderful by just
cleaning up after me and ruining my future C disciple by not
deleting stuff myself.
I don't know when the GC actually gets a chance to run.
I am wondering if deleting
