Closures and Memory Management

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-21 03:37, Eric Poggel (JoeCoder) wrote:
> On 4/20/2011 7:07 PM, Andrew Wiley wrote:
>> I'm working on a project that looks like it'll need manual memory
>> management (the end goal is to get it running on ARM using GDC, where
>> the GC doesn't seem to behave (that goal might be unrealistic, but I can
>> hope))
>
> I wonder if it would be useful to have a "static" phobos project, a
> subset/replacement of standard library functions that can behave without
> a garbage collector.
>
> Are there enough situations D is a good fit but garbage collection is not?

I would guess, as he mentioned, ARM i.e. mobile devices. Of course you 
could use a garbage collector on a mobile device but, for example, iOS 
doesn't use one, even though Mac OS X has a built in garbage collector.

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/Jacob Carlborg