When is it time for a 1.0 feature freeze?

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Sat Sep 2 12:57:43 PDT 2006


Serg Kovrov wrote:
> If only programmer could have some control over GC, it would be just 
> fine. For example to query GC's memory pool and decide to free some 
> amount if it exceed some threshold. Walter, any comments on this?

Because, as I said in another post, malloc/free/new/delete don't return 
memory to the operating system, what apps often do if they need to 
allocate/free some small number of very large buffers is to do them 
separately, usually with a call straight into the OS API.

You can do the same thing in D, using the same technique and pretty much 
identical code.



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