List of Phobos functions that allocate memory?

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 18:20:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/6/14, 10:05 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> Am Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:32:08 +0000
>> schrieb "Dicebot" <public at dicebot.lv>:
>>
>>> On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 16:28:25 UTC, Andrei 
>>> Alexandrescu
>>> wrote:
>>>> Would anyone be willing to take on the ingrate task of 
>>>> creating
>>>> a comprehensive list with all Phobos functions (and more
>>>> generally artifacts) that allocate memory? That would help a
>>>> lot with focusing the discussion.
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> Merging 
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1886
>>> and running phobos unit tests should make it relatively 
>>> simple,
>>> at least for a first pass.
>>
>> That's only for implicit allocations though. And please, don't 
>> merge
>> yet, it'll get another rewrite this weekend ;-)
>
> Please close if you plan to rewrite.
>
>> One interesting point is that module that were written with 
>> avoiding
>> allocations in mind usually still allocate when throwing 
>> exceptions.
>
> Good point, we need to address that as well.
>

I'd think fixing that is probably above and beyond what is 
required to satisfy most people. If you are throwing so many 
exceptions that GC pauses are a problem you've got more serious 
problems than the GC.

nothrow doesn't concern itself with Error exceptions, I think 
nogc should just ignore exceptions generally.

>
> Andrei