std.experimental.yesnogc

Chris via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 15 08:40:14 PST 2016


On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 00:35:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Hey folks, I want to push things forward with artifacts 
> dedicated to avoiding the GC, and of course my main worry is 
> finding the right name.
>
> An obvious choice is std.experimental.nogc but we know from 
> Marketing 101 that expressing something as a positive is better 
> than a negative. Another possibility is std.experimental.rc, 
> but that's imprecise because the artifacts in there will 
> contain a variety of things in addition to reference 
> counting-related artifacts.
>
> Ideas?
>
>
> Andrei

Will there also be an article about how to integrate the new 
memory model(s) into existing code? Something along the lines of 
"How to make existing code GC free". It'd be great to have a 
guide that shows how to do it properly.


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