Review of std.signal

[Dmitry Olshansky]

24-Jan-2014 02:58, Martin Nowak пишет:
> On 01/13/2014 10:16 PM, ilya-stromberg wrote:
>>
>> It's not so good to have array of delegates because you will have a
>> memory leaks. Delegate has permanent pointer to the object, so GC will
>> never free it. As alternative, you can delete delegate manually, but in
>> this case you can have problems with manual memory management.
>>
>> So, array of delegates is possible solution, but only for VERY simple
>> cases. This module solves problem with memory leaks because it
>> implements weak connections (based on weak reference). It's easy to use,
>> but VERY difficult to implement.
>
> But weak references should be implemented on GC/druntime level.

It could be interesting to provide weak memory mapping with GC.
Could be very useful for caches.

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Dmitry Olshansky