GC, the simple solution

[Sean Kelly]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:18:24 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> 
>> The approach most real time programmers use to deal with this is to 
>> preallocate all needed data before entering the real time section, and 
>> the real time section does no malloc's or free's.
>>
>> Also, you can use malloc and free in D, in exactly the same way you 
>> would in C.
> 
> It seems obvious that if one doesn't want the Garbage Collector to collect
> garbage, one doesn't create any garbage for it to collect. ;-)

This gets sticky if one wants to use strings in D though, as there's no 
real way to make them work outside of the garbage collector mechanism. 
Sure we could use C-style pointers, but it's not a terribly attractive 
option.  I suppose the alternative would be a class with a custom 
allocator method.


Sean