[OT] Walter's anecdotes

[Brian Tiffin]

On Thursday, 5 August 2021 at 17:46:22 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> Brian Tiffin asked in the thread [Do you use D's 
> GC?](https://forum.dlang.org/post/gthgnueerizzgirfpmrt@forum.dlang.org) "Does anyone have a Walter's Wisdoms file?"
>

And here's the one that caused me to interrupt the other thread...


Do you use D's GC?
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There's some good replies here.

When I write high performance code, I use a mix of manual and GC 
allocation. Stuff that's critical for performance or recycling 
memory, I use manual. For not critical stuff, like setup and 
configuration code, I use the GC because it's so much more 
convenient.

BTW, regardless of what language you use, or use GC or not, 
there's no way to write a high performance program without being 
cognizant of its memory consumption patterns.