garbage collection in d

Daniel Oberhoff daniel at danieloberhoff.de
Wed Apr 7 14:01:47 PDT 2010


On 2010-04-07 20:40:27 +0200, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> said:
> 
> It's still possible to build druntime with a custom GC.  You can even 
> have a "GC" that simply calls malloc/free if you avoid coding that 
> relies on implicit collection of discarded memory.  See gc_stub for an 
> example.  As for better GC implementations, there are a bunch of 
> options, but I don't know that we can go so far as an incremental 
> collector ala Java.  That D can call C code causes problems there.

ah, I had been thinking about that. actually, you can call c code from 
java and .net. The point is that you have to take care about the memory 
you pass into the c function, and that which you get out. so there must 
be a sane way, right?

Best

Daniel




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