Advice wanted on garbage collection of sockets for c++ programmer using D

Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 28 02:16:22 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 02:13:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> There are definitely cases where finalizers make sense. Case in 
> point: if you have a socket class, it makes perfect sense for 
> it to have a finalizer. Yes, it's better to close it manually, 
> but it will work just fine for the GC to close it when 
> finalizing the class object so long as you don't use so many 
> sockets that you run out before the GC collects them. So, 
> having a finalizer is a good backup to ensure that the socket 
> resource doesn't leak.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

So far everyone is ignoring my example when A needs B to be 
destroyed. This happens as soon as you use DerelictUtil for 
example.







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