Why does D rely on a GC?
Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 26 00:49:05 PDT 2014
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 07:10:32 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> In practice you then add .close/.release methods to every
> resource object
Yes.
> and here we are back at malloc/free.
No.
GC exists because general purpose memory has different properties
and used in a different ways than other resources. For example,
you can't build a cycle of files. Hence different ways of
management for memory and other types of resources. And people
coming from unmanaged environments, like C++, should learn about
that difference and how to manage resources in GC environment. I
agree it's a problem there's no tutorial for that. Maybe, .net
tutorials can be used to teach it.
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