The "no gc" crowd

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/8/13 4:29 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 22:58:02 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> But is it even necessary?
>
> It is nice to have stdlib functions available that can be used anywhere.
> For std.algorithm, Andrei has said if you ever implement an algorithm by
> hand, it means the library has failed. But there's two places where that
> falls short (IMO at least): using it without allocating, and using it
> without bringing in a bazillion dependencies.

Only Levenshtein distance produces garbage in std.algorithm.

Andrei