GC-free techniques for a wiki page - Was: Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Peter Alexander]

On Sunday, 2 February 2014 at 05:30:12 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 20:26:51 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
> wrote:
>> On 1/31/14, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Bumping old thread:
>>>
>>> There is an ever-increasing amount of newcomers in #d on IRC 
>>> who
>>> end up asking how to avoid the GC or at least to be able to
>>> determine where implicit allocations happen. I think we should
>>> work on creating a wiki page and gather as much advice as
>>> possible on dealing with the GC, implicit allocations, 
>>> real-time
>>> constraints, etc.
>>
>> It looks like this post was missed, and instead people started
>> replying to messages from over a year ago. :)
>
> I found this page quite useful (http://dlang.org/memory.html), 
> but I acknowledge it's probably not enough.
>
> I've only been here a short time, but I'm beginning to see that 
> things with "we should" likely won't every happen until they 
> are replaced with "I should".

I wrote this a while back:

http://poita.org/2012/12/15/using-d-without-the-gc.html

It doesn't cover everything though, and I think the static array 
initialisation allocation is now out-of-date.