Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Walter Bright]

On 3/21/2014 5:39 PM, bearophile wrote:
> That code must always be hard-real time. So a GC is allowed only during startup
> time (unless it's a quite special GC), hidden heap allocations are forbidden,
> data access patterns need to be carefully chosen, you even have to use most of
> the hot part of the stack, etc.

These are all very doable in D, and I've written apps that do so. The "fear of 
GC" is completely overblown.

However, I do recognize that Phobos can be made a lot more non-GC friendly, and 
I am working on PR's to do that. For example,

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2014