Go Your Own Way (Part One: The Stack)

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/7/17 8:59 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> This is my latest post in the GC series. I had promised the next one 
> would look at non-GC allocation strategies, but as it got longer and 
> longer I decided to break it up into two parts. This part covers stack 
> allocations. The next one will deal with non-GC heap allocations.
> 
> If my luck holds out, we're about to see a flurry of guest posts and 
> collaborations over the next few weeks. If that pans out, I expect to 
> publish the part two in mid-late August.
> 
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2017/07/07/go-your-own-way-part-one-the-stack/
> 
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ltfwx/go_your_own_way_part_one_of_two_on_nongc/ 
> 

I thought alloca was an intrinsic? Which means that the compiler 
generates inline code to add to the stack.

I would think it has to do this, since actually calling a function would 
generate a new stack frame.

-Steve