DConf 2013 Day 2 Talk 2: Shared Libraries in D by Martin Nowak

[Diggory]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 04:00:18 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:12:54 -0400, Diggory 
> <diggsey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> With regard to the last point in the talk where Walter was 
>> suggesting not calling finalizers on objects whose code has 
>> been unloaded - would it not make more sense to simply call 
>> all the finalizers before unloading the library?
>
> In fact, I think in discussions after the talk (not recorded on 
> video), we came to the same conclusion.  If you are unloading 
> the library and have any pointers to classes from that library, 
> that is a programming error.  So it should be safe to destroy 
> all known objects from that library.
>
> -Steve

Ah, good to know :)