Manual memory management in D2

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Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> And how would you use such a feature effectively? I've seen such
> "optional implementation" policies in standards such as SQL 
> (compatibility levels) and C++ (export). They _always_ fare disastrously.

Just like we do it now: write code for the garbage collected environment of your choise.

> It's not about difficulty as much as constraining GC implementers 
> unnecessarily. Again: use a heap tuned for manual management to manage 
> memory manually, and a heap tuned for automatic management to manage 
> memory automatically. I think it's a very reasonable stance.

Yes, heap is used by language expressions new and delete. That's exactly what want to say: whether deallocation is supported or not is a feature of chosen runtime and programming style.