The "no gc" crowd

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 09.10.2013 01:29, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
>
> 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.
>

This. Exactly this was one of my biggest problems when writing GC free 
code. I started with "hey I just patch all places in phobos that do 
allocations". I planed to do so, so I can use std.algorithm and others. 
After trying for a while the dependencies killed me. So I just stopped 
altogether and rewrote whatever algorithm I would need myself. The 
dependencies between the modules in phobos are catastrophic. If you need 
one module, you basically need all of them.

Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut