New pointer type for GC
via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 27 09:56:56 PDT 2014
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:47:38 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> You're right, it's obviously easier to keep it as the same
> pointer syntax but hijack the stdlib malloc functions to
> forcibly go through the GC.
That is an option, and having a hijacked malloc would probably
also make it possible to optimize out uneccessary allocations as
well as inline allocations.
If you have a GC-pointer type and ban transitions to regular
pointers unless they are borrowed pointers then that would also
be ok (you don't need to hijack malloc then).
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