Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 01:24:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.
>

Fear of GC is overblown. Fear of D's GC isn't.