GC implementation
Andrew Fedoniouk
news at terrainformatica.com
Sat Mar 18 13:47:48 PST 2006
"Frank Benoit" <frank at nix.de> wrote in message
news:dvhkut$541$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>
> The intention of the GC is, to disburden the programmer from the whole
> memory management. He only has to care about setting unused references
> to null. And he can rely on the collector to find unused memory chunks.
> But now it turns out, that this is not true.
>
> So, If I want to rely on the GC, this is a show stopper for me.
>
> A large piece of audio data in GC heap can completly currupt the GC.
> If i only have a few integer variable this risk is extremly low, but it
> is not gone.
> So, how many variable are allowed, until we have to call it a show
> stopper?
Well said, Frank.
And very good point.
>
> Sorry, for being so pedantic.
>
I think D need some pedantic league around. Thomas is the only one
gentleman so far who are trying to bring some "ordnung" here.
Joke. Well, sort of.
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