Allocatoin policy in Phobos - Was: Vote for std.process

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:41:57 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 4/12/2013 7:05 AM, Manu wrote:
>> I'll start doing it myself, but I also suggest it be made a policy, and
>> carefully considered when considering acceptance of ANY new module.  
>> That way,
>> new code that suffers the unpredictable/"surprise!" allocation problems  
>> won't be
>> introduced.
>
> I would also expect that Phobos modules that know the lifetimes of their  
> allocated data use malloc/free rather than the gc.

I would like a better solution.  Allocating things with malloc/free means  
no GC references involved,or clunky addroot/removeroot calls.  That is  
dangerous to say the least.

What about dsimcha's region allocator?

-Steve