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[Somedude]

Le 01/12/2011 12:26, Regan Heath a écrit :
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:04:13 -0000, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:
> 
>> The quite common claim that you cannot use Phobos without cluttering
>> up all your code with allocations is just not true. Phobos is not an
>> Object-oriented class library. There are seldom hidden allocations,
>> and it is almost always obvious when allocations must happen. The most
>> useful high-level features of D are compile time features that do not
>> harm performance (on the contrary).
> 
> But, it is true you cannot use the ~ operator on strings without
> involving the GC, right?
> 
> Maybe this isn't a problem for people who want to manually manage memory
> for performance reasons but it is right at the very lowest levels of
> "what is D" and it seems like something where it should be possible to
> choose how the memory for a string is allocated etc.
> 
> R
> 
OTOH, string concatenation is not the most critical thing for game
writers, is it ?
I would see it more likely in XML parsing libraries, but D is already
the fastest performer in this area (but maybe it could be faster without
GC ?).