What's left for 1.0?

[Bill Baxter]

Benji Smith wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>  > So, what's left on everyone's lists for D1.0 must-have features?
> 
> Although D doesn't currently use a generational copying collector, it 
> would be nice if we could anticipate the hurdles to implementing a 
> copying GC in the current language, and develop some syntactic 
> extensions to the language for copying with a copying GC.
> [...]
> 
> It would be nice, before version 1.0 of D, to get the syntax in place 
> for pinning pointers. With the current GC, all objects are permanently 
> "pinned" anyhow, so this implementation would be semantically correct, 
> even if it didn't do anything :) But at least, with the syntax in place, 
> we'd be prepared for the eventual introduction of a generational copying 
> GC, when such a thing is inevitably implemented.
> 
> --benji


You didn't get a lot of response to this.  But it sounds reasonable to 
me.  The slowness of the garbage collector seems to come up as a topic 
fairly regularly here.

--bb