System level language, GC, allocation and typeinfo

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 27 11:19:20 PDT 2014


On 5/27/14, 7:59 AM, MachMit wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:06:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> ...However, I cannot really come up with a single situation where I
>> don't know what kind of allocator I have used when accessing a
>> pointer....
>
> Heap allocation in D is up to the user. Can you imagine something like
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastmm/ in D ? It's a (sorry for being
> an arsh) fuckin good memory manager...It's for user or RT allocations,
> it detects leaks, etc...It should be a source of inspiration for the
> top-notch D guys...

Is there a white paper available for FastMM? Couldn't find any. -- Andrei



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