std.allocator needs your help

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Sep 23 07:05:12 PDT 2013


On 9/22/13 10:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/22/2013 9:19 PM, Manu wrote:
>> Following this train of thought, I can imagine a really nice end goal
>> would be
>> that the existing GC is effectively plugged in as a library, and
>> people can
>> easily substitute it for their own GC if they want/need to.
>
> It already is, and has been from the beginning. Rainer, for example,
> uses a different GC for VisualD.

Correct.

> dmd knows naught about the GC.

Well except for plugging a library call for calls to new. But that's 
expected.

(I'm already pretending delete doesn't exist :o).)


Andrei




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