DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 09:55:38 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 09:32:52 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Any iOS device runs circles around those systems, hence why I 
>> always like to make clear it was Apple's failure to make a 
>> workable GC in a C based language and not the virtues of pure 
>> ARC over pure GC.
>
> I am not making an argument for pure ARC. Objective-C allows 
> you to mix and Os-X is most certainly not pure ARC based.
>
> If we go back in time to the timeslot you point to even C was 
> considered waaaay too slow for real time graphics.
>
> On the C64 and the Amiga you wrote in assembly and optimized 
> for the hardware. E.g. using hardware scroll register on the 
> C64 and the copperlist (a specialized scanline triggered 
> processor writing to hardware registers) on the Amiga. No way 
> you could do real time graphics in a GC backed language back 
> then without a dedicated engine with HW support. Real time 
> audio was done with DSPs until the mid 90s.

Sure, old demoscener here.