What can you "new"

Denis Koroskin 2korden at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 08:27:39 PDT 2009


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:20:02 +0300, grauzone <none at example.net> wrote:

> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>
>>> To do Systems Work on an embedded system, I'd like to see a D subset,
>>> without GC, and which would essentially be like C with classes. I've
>>> even toyed with the idea of having a D1toC translator for the job.
>>
>> With D2 you can drop in a different allocator to be used by the runtime
>> -- there's an example implementation that simply calls malloc/free, for
>> example.  You'll leak memory if you perform string concatenation or use
>> the AA, but otherwise everything works fine.
>
> You forgot the array literals (which almost look like harmless,
> non-allocating array initializers), and the full closure delegates,
> where the compiler will randomly choose to allocate or not to allocate
> memory ("randomly" from the programmer's point of view). And of course
> most library functions.
> 

Tango is designed in a way to avoid any hidden allocations.




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