Clarification on D.

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 9 11:33:00 PST 2017


On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 16:12:46 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 11:52:42 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 8 March 2017 at 20:00:54 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> This is mostly a psychological effect of C++ folks having 
>> aversion to any GC.
>
> It is interesting to have watched this debate over the years. 
> Bjarne S. responded to the Java crowd by embracing the GC. He 
> still has on his FAQ: "If you want automatic garbage 
> collection, there are good commercial and public-domain garbage 
> collectors for C++. For applications where garbage collection 
> is suitable, C++ is an excellent garbage collected language 
> with a performance that compares favorably with other garbage 
> collected languages."

C++11 also defined a GC ABI for those "commercial and 
public-domain garbage collectors".

Section 20.7.4, Pointer safety.


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