Disable GC entirely

[Rob T]

On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 04:32:52 UTC, Manu wrote:
> moments, and give the collect function a maximum timeout where 
> it will
> yield, and then resume where it left off next time I call it.

Maximum collect period is perhaps the most significant missing 
feature of all. Having that alone would probably solve most of 
the complaints. The other thing is not having any control over 
when the thing decides to make a run. It runs while allocating 
large data sets without a reason to do so slowing things down by 
as much as 3x, although perhaps it has no way to know that 
there's no chance for anything to be collected without help from 
the programmer. What I have to do, is disable the GC, do the 
allocations, then re-enable, but without the maximum timeout, you 
can get a very large pause after re-enabling in the range of 
seconds which is completely unacceptable for some applications.

--rt