What's the D way of allocating memory?

[Dicebot]

On Wednesday, 7 August 2013 at 15:21:56 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
wrote:
> What's the D way of allocating memory? Do you guys just use 
> malloc() and free()? Or are there functions in phobos that 
> should be used? I just need a buffer of variable length 
> allocating every now and then.

Want it to be managed by GC: use `new`
Want to do manual management: use `malloc`