The "no gc" crowd

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 02:22:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> * Advertise all of the above in a top module such as 
> std.refcounted. It's amazing how many D programmers have no 
> idea RefCounted even exists.
>

std.typecons is a little treasure trove of stuff nobody can find 
or knows about.  I think tuple should be promoted to its own 
module too (which would help alleviate some of the confusion new 
users have with std.typetuple as well).

> * Review all of Phobos for hidden allocations and make 
> appropriate decisions on how to give the user more control over 
> allocation. I have some idea on how that can be done, at 
> various disruption costs.

I ran Johannes Pfau's work-in-progress -vgc [1] while building 
Phobos back in June. Here are the now out of date results: 
http://goo.gl/HP78r  I'm sure plenty is missing in there (I think 
allocations inside templates that aren't instiated aren't 
included).

> * Get Robert Schadek's precise GC in. Walter and I have become 
> 101% convinced a precise GC is the one way to go about GC.
>
> I'm up to my neck in D work for Facebook so my time is well 
> spent. We must definitely up the ante in terms of development 
> speed, and pronto.
>
>
> Andrei

All of this sounds great.

1. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1886