[phobos] Clear appending cache?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I think we should actively discourage manual release of memory from the 
GC heap. We should instead facilitate use of malloc and free.

Andrei

On 11/18/10 1:33 PM, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> I plan to fix 1 soon (as discussed in your bug report).
>
> I forgot about 2, but the runtime function that deletes an array should
> remove it from the cache. (this is an easy fix).
>
> To get you running, this would be the contents of the requested function
> (must put the function in rt/lifetime.d):
>
> __blkcache[] = BlkInfo.init;
>
> -Steve
>
>
>     *From:* David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com>
>     *To:* Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
>     *Sent:* Thu, November 18, 2010 4:15:50 PM
>     *Subject:* [phobos] Clear appending cache?
>
>     Can someone who knows better than me how it works (probably Steve)
>     please put a function in druntime to clear the current thread's
>     array appending cache? I need this for two reasons:
>
>     1. To make sure arrays I'm done with get GC'd.
>
>     2. To make it safe(r) to free arrays manually.
>
>
>
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