D on next-gen consoles and for game development

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 18:22:54 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling 
wrote:
> On 05/23/2013 08:13 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> Now I'm wondering what can be done to foster this newly 
>> acquired credibility in
>> games.  By far the biggest issue I hear about when it comes to 
>> people working on
>> games in D is the garbage collector.  You can work around the 
>> GC without too
>> much difficulty as Manu's experience shared in his DConf talk 
>> shows but a lot of
>> people new to D don't know how to do that.  We could also use 
>> some tools and
>> guides to help people identify and avoid GC use when necessary.
>
> As a starting point, do we have a list of the Phobos functions 
> that allocate
> using GC when there's no need to?  That's a concern of Manu's 
> that it ought to
> be possible to address relatively swiftly if the information is 
> to hand.

I think that's where Johannes Pfau's -vgc can come in and help.  
The phobos unit tests have pretty good coverage so building those 
with -vgc would, in theory, point out the vast majority of places 
in phobos that use the gc.