D on next-gen consoles and for game development

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 25 May 2013 at 05:52:23 UTC, Manu wrote:
> But it would be deterministic, and if the allocations are few, 
> the cost
> should be negligible.
>

You'll pay a tax on pointer write, not on allocations ! It won't 
be negligible !

> They're still non-deterministic though. And unless (even if?) 
> they're
> precise, they might leak.
>

Not if they are precise. But this is another topic.

> What does ObjC do? It seems to work okay on embedded hardware 
> (although not
> particularly memory-constrained hardware).
> Didn't ObjC recently reject GC in favour of refcounting?

ObjC is an horrible three headed monster in that regard, and I 
don't think this is the way to go.