DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 18:18:49 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 18:00:25 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Such weak @nogc could help to avoid triggering allocations by 
>> an accident and encourage usage of output ranges / buffers.
>
> Ok, more like a "lintish" feature of the "remind me if I use 
> too much of feature X in these sections" variety.
>
> I view @nogc as a safeguard against crashes when I let threads 
> run while the garbage collector is in a collection phase. A 
> means to bypass "stop-the-world" collection by having pure 
> @nogc threads.

Yeah for me @nogc is more of a lint thing in general. But it 
can't be done by lint because @nogc needs to affect mangling to 
work with separate compilation reliably.

I think for your scenario having dedicated @nogc threads makes 
more sense, this can be built on top of plain function attribute 
@nogc.