Plan for D

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 05:50:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Yeah, and...? dmd a very short-running program, and its 
> allocated memory is released when it exits.

No, it isnt very short-running. And that is not a valid argument 
either, as the user may have other tasks that need the memory.

To keep it short:

Programs that acquire significantly more resources than needed 
are misbehaving. Never met anyone disagreeing with this view.

Memory management is insignificant time wise if you have a 
solution suitable for systemsprogramming.

If D does not have a memory management solution suitable for DMD, 
then D does not have a solution for systems level programming, 
yet...

If this is difficult to accept, then there is no hope of 
improvements.

> The GC is not a panacea. It's not suitable for every use case 
> or performance goal. And that's perfectly fine.

If GC is suitable for anything system level, it would be a batch 
program like a compiler.