GC conservatism -- again

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Dec 30 10:38:48 PST 2010


Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 12/30/10 11:19 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > Adam Ruppe Wrote:
> >
> >> On 12/27/10, Steven Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com>  wrote:
> >>> What about tools to make deallocation easier?  For example, we have
> >>> scope(exit) that you could potentially use to ensure a memory block is
> >>> deallocated on exit from a scope, what about a thread exit?
> >>
> >> It seems to me that the simplest thing might simply be a list of delegates stored
> >> with the thread:
> >>
> >> thread.onexit ~= { free(whatever); };
> >
> > Already possible via static dtors.
> 
> Not dynamically...

void*[] toFree;

static ~this() {
    foreach(e; toFree)
        free(e);
}

What am I missing?


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