The GC, destructors, exceptions and memory corruption

[Robert Jacques]

On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:01:56 -0400, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
> == Quote from Don (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
>> Yeah. It's pretty hard to come up with a use case for a finalizer.
>
> This is why I'm so interested in improving D's GC yet have shown so  
> little
> interest in this bug.  I can't even figure out what finalizers are for  
> and
> basically never use them.  Even in the cases where I have used them  
> before to get
> around false pointer issues, I now realize that such uses were actually  
> latent
> race conditions.

I use the finalizers of proxy classes to manage GPU memory.