Disable GC entirely

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-04-08 10:31, Manu wrote:

> D for embedded, like PROPER embedded (microcontrollers, or even
> raspberry pi maybe?) is one area where most users would be happy to use
> a custom druntime like the ones presented earlier in this thread where
> it's strategically limited in scope and designed not to allocate.
> 'Really embedded' software tends not to care so much about portability.
> A bigger problem is D's executable size, which are rather 'plump' to be
> frank :P
> Last time I tried to understand this, one main issue was objectfactory,
> and the inability to strip out unused classinfo structures (and other
> junk). Any unused data should be stripped, but D somehow finds reason to
> keep it all. Also, template usage needs to be relaxed. Over-use of
> templates really bloats the exe. But it's not insurmountable, D could be
> used in 'proper embedded'.

I agree with the templates, Phobos is full of them. Heck, I created a 
D-Objective-C bridge that resulted in a 60MB GUI Hello World exeuctable. 
Full of template and virtual methods bloat.

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/Jacob Carlborg