Rant of the day

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 1/26/21 12:06 PM, Rumbu wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 15:16:01 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 1/25/21 9:55 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
>>
>>> Note: you did not need to call GC.free. The destroy would have 
>>> guaranteed unmapping internally. GC.free would only remove the class 
>>> instance memory itself.
>>
>> This. GC is for memory cleanup, but not necessary to cleanup resources.
>>
>> If you are calling GC.free in your code, likely you are doing 
>> something wrong.
>>
> 
> I took the example from an unittest, assuming that people writing phobos 
> libs are way smarter than me :)
> 
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/fb7bfb2ba5a581cafb9e85ced8f8d67aab35f412/std/mmfile.d#L673 

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/7770

-Steve