Discussion on Go and D

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 07.04.2012 2:08, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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>
> On 4/6/2012 8:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/6/2012 10:37 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>> I hope there is something wrong with my reasoning, and that you could
>>> give me
>>> some hints to avoid the memory bloat and the application stalls.
>>
>> A couple of things you can try (they are workarounds, not solutions):
>>
>> 1. Actively delete memory you no longer need, rather than relying on the
>> gc to catch it. Yes, this is as unsafe as using C's free().
>
> Actually, having to deal with lifetime issues myself takes away the
> biggest plus of the GC, so I am a bit reluctant to do this.
>

How about this:
http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2010/07/15/data-d-unmanaged-memory-wrapper-for-d/

Or you can wrap-up something similar along the same lines.

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Dmitry Olshansky