Associative Arrays need cleanout method or property to help garbage collection

[Robert Jacques]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:57:34 -0300, Michael Rynn  
<michaelrynn at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> I want to add that the problems of AA with garbage collection are not
> particular to the implementation of built-in AA. The number of nodes that
> builtin AA creates will increase GC scanning, but the AA slowdowns also
> occurs using the pyDict implementation with string keys.

Actually, you can design the AA to 'play nice' with D's GC. See RandAA.