GC for noobs

[Szymon Gatner]

On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:43:58 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:28:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner 
> wrote:
>> I didn't mean "basic" in the sense of "easy" but in the sense 
>> of something that has to dealt with all the time / is common 
>> requirement.
>
> Yes, it needs to be dealt with all the time but in a different 
> ways. Problem is with getting sensible defaults. D makes a 
> reasonable assumption that most applications don't actually 
> care about tight bullet-proof resource management and defaults 
> to GC. I may not like it but it fits criteria "built-in 
> resource management" and pretty much shows that it is not as 
> basic as one may think.
>

Not really different tho. Actual function call swqence might be 
different but the scheme is always the same: acquire resource, 
allocate, connect, take from pool vs release, deallocate, 
disconnect, return to pool. All of those fall under resource 
management - there is a finite amout of a resouce whether it is a 
memory, a system process, a file or a databese connection and it 
is crucial to the system stability that all of them are properly 
returned / released AND in proper order (which is of course 
reverse to "acquisition").