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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-02-11 18:40, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-02-10 20:23, Zachary Lund wrote:
>>> On 02/10/2012 01:02 PM, Tim Krimm wrote:
>>>> This language would basically be D without the garbage collection.
>>>> For example there would be structures but no classes.
>>>> There would be regular arrays but no dynamic arrays.
>>>> Code that is mostly equivalent to C, but you would still have
>>>> structures
>>>> with functions and overloading support,
>>>> and other features like templates etc.
>>>>
>>>> I think you get the idea.
>>>>
>>>> What are your thoughts?
>>>
>>> I would love this as well. I *think* you wouldn't have to recreate the
>>> language, just recreate the runtime. You can currently use D and can
>>> completely avoid the use of the GC by just using static functions. From
>>> what I understand, dynamic arrays are also controlled and provided
>>> through the runtime. You can also export C symbols if you wanted to.
>>
>> No need to restrict yourself yo static functions. Functions in structs
>> are not virtual and doesn't require the GC.
>
> Virtual functions don't require the GC either.

No they don't, but the will add other overhead.

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/Jacob Carlborg