Manually freeing up memory

[bearophile]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling:

> Can anyone advise?  I would rather not disable the GC entirely 
> as there's lots of Phobos I want to be able to use -- but I'd 
> really like it if I could indicate categorically to the GC, 
> "these objects and arrays need to be deleted and the memory 
> freed _now_".

One solution is to allocate the original array on the C heap. 
Another solution is to allocate it normally from the GC heap and 
then use GC.free().

Maybe a third option is to use a memory-mapped file for the first 
array.

Bye,
bearophile