The GC and performance, but not what you expect

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 17:07:23 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 15:15:46 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 23:39:02 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
>>>
>>> Nice try, but destructors called by the GC are currently
>>> effectively @nogc. So don't try that at home.
>>
>> When did that happen?  Some effort was made at one point to 
>> ensure that allocations worked from dtors.  Not that I'm in 
>> favor, but...
>
> More than two years ago, possibly longer:
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7349

That's a different issue, which is that the current GC isn't
necessarily exception safe and throwing from a dtor violates
this.  I don't see any mention there about allocating in a dtor.