D for Game Development

[thedeemon via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 05:03:34 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> Furthermore, more often than not allocations in D on the heap 
> contain no pointers/references at all (>60% of all allocated 
> memory in nearly every D program I tested that wasn't optimized 
> to not use the GC contained no pointers/references.) and AFAIK 
> the current GC makes no use of this fact.

Of course it does: memory allocated for data without pointers is 
not scanned (see core.memory.BlkAttr.NO_SCAN). It has been this 
way for ages.