Disable GC entirely

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/8/13 3:35 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Scott Meyers had a talk about what he called red code/green code. It was
> supposed to statically enforce that green code cannot call red code.
> Then what is green code is completely up to you, if it's memory safe,
> thread safe, GC free or similar.
>
> I don't remember the conclusion and what could be implemented like this,
> but here's the talk:
>
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=scott%20meyers%20red%20green%20code&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJfu9Kc1D-gQ&ei=fXJiUfC3FuSB4gS41IHADQ&usg=AFQjCNGtKwLcr2jNjsC4RJ0_5k8WmAFzTw&bvm=bv.44770516,d.bGE

Article: http://www.artima.com/cppsource/codefeaturesP.html

It's one of Scott's better works but it went underappreciated. I think 
it would be worthwhile looking into how to implement such with D's 
features (notably attributes).


Andrei