is d-runtime non-gc safe?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-03 19:05, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> +1 on interest on having this. Back when I was attempting to port VST
> to D I got asked by a Steinberg dev how I can guarantee that D plugins
> will work. But I couldn't guarantee it, if a GC collection were to run
> the plugin would freeze, the host would crash, and the host company
> would likely get the blame. A GC-less environment would be great for
> realtime plugins, I'm not sure how arrays/slices would work, but I
> guess custom Array refcounted structs could be made or something.

Seems like a very badly designed plugin or plugin system if the host 
crashes when a plugin freezes.

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/Jacob Carlborg