System level language, GC, allocation and typeinfo

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 18:19:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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

I Googled a little and found this, but nothing with larger scale: 
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/33416#27ImplementationDetails

-Wyatt