GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

Rob T rob at ucora.com
Tue Oct 23 15:43:08 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 at 10:28:29 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> SomeDude:
>
>> It's a bad solution imho. Monitoring the druntime and hunting 
>> every part that allocates until our codebase is correct like 
>> Benjamen Thaut is a much better solution
>
> Why do you think such hunt is better than letting the compiler 
> tell you what parts of your program have the side effects you 
> want to avoid?
>

The compiler option warning about undesirable heap allocations 
will allow for complete undesirable allocations to be identified 
much more easily and without missing anything. This is a general 
solution to a general problem where a programmer wishes to avoid 
heap allocations for whatever reason.

--rt



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