Goodbye, garbage collector!

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

Great idea! I never new, that it's possible to intercept GC calls!

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Martin Nowak <dawg at dawgfoto.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:12:39 +0200, Gor Gyolchanyan
> <gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I got the point.
>> This boils down to the same issue of "is the feature worth changing
>> the language".
>> a GraphicsCardAllocator would still be very useful, even if it would
>> force you to use custom array types.
>>
> You can use any raw memory as array using the pointer slice expression.
> Appending won't work out of the box of course.
> Have a look at druntime rt.lifetime. You could possibly write a gc proxy
> wrapper
> and add a flag to the BlkInfoAttr. Then you're able to intercept those
> (re)allocations.
>
>
>> I looked at the programming paradigms, that D added on top of those,
>> taken from C++, including improved generic programming, generative
>> programming, functional programming...
>> And thought, that it would be a very good idea to add
>> hardware-distributed programming.
>> Even if it would be purely library solution.
>> What i mean is an integration of D with OpenCL: a very easy way to
>> switch the memory and processing between required devices.
>> We could have a compile-time functions, that translate D code into
>> OpenCL kernels and perform all necessary setup at program start-up.
>> You'd feed the D modules in the templates and the templates would
>> generate the necessary code to make the module run on desired
>> hardware.
>> We all know, that an OpenCL binding for D will come along eventually
>> (if not already done).
>> It would be very nice to further improve it's usability, using D's
>> unique language features.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:
>>>
>>> Gor Gyolchanyan Wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a question about switching to 100% manual memory management.
>>>> I know how it should be done with structs and classes: override the
>>>> new and delete.
>>>> But i don't know how to do it for arrays, associative arrays, stack
>>>> frames for delegates and all other instances of implicit memory
>>>> allocation.
>>>> Is there a way to completely override all memory allocations, so that
>>>> i can use the language to the fullest in performance-critical places?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Gor.
>>>
>>> allocation is done by druntime, which is opensource, you can rewrite it
>>> to anything you want.
>