Plan for D

[Imperatorn]

On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 06:44:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
> 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.

C'mon dude... How can you say with a straight face that dmd isn't 
a short running process?

It's even hard to imagine a better real world example of a case 
where it's ok to not free.

Also, if you want to you can use the lowmem switch?