[OT] Region-Based Storage Management: ParaSailing without a (Garbage) Chute

[bearophile]

Paulo Pinto:

> A presentation about the ParaSail, system programming language 
> based on Ada.
>
> https://air.mozilla.org/region-based-storage-management-parasailing-without-a-garbage-chute/

Seems interesting, almost 90 minutes of talk. Do you know if 
there is a link to download the slides?


> It makes use of regions and compiler inference to automatically
> manage memory, instead of using a GC.

It sounds similar to what Rust does.


> Maybe some ideas for D types with custom allocators.

To manage the regions Rust uses specific features of the type 
system (and a specific built-in syntax to parametrize types 
according to their region with a T/region syntax).

Bye,
bearophile