Release D 2.085.0

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 03/03/2019 22:51, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 March 2019 at 18:19:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce D 2.085.0, ♥ to the 49 contributors.
>>
>> This release comes with context-aware assertion messages, lower GC
>> memory usage, a precise GC, support to link custom GCs, lots of
>> Objective-C improvements¹, and toolchainRequirements for dub. This
>> release also ended official support for OSX-32.
>>
>> http://dlang.org/download.html http://dlang.org/changelog/2.085.0.html
>>
>> ¹: There is a pending Objective-C fix
>> (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9402) that slipped 2.085.0 but will
>> be released with 2.085.1 soon (~1.5 weeks).
>>
>> -Martin
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> It would be even greater if the GC could automatically do
> 
>    -DRT-gcopt=cleanup:none
> 
> automatically for all the GC-allocations of aggregate types that don't
> have a destructor (hasElaborateDestructor being true for structs and
> classes).
> 
> Would that be possible to implement?
> 
> I presume that would require segregating the heap even further, right?

These objects would still have to be scanned, so there is not much that
could be saved with respect to performance.

BTW: DRT options have a double-dash at the start, e.g.

--DRT-gcopt=cleanup:none

This should be corrected in the blog post, too.