Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Walter Bright]

On 3/23/2014 12:42 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 10:35 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/23/2014 12:13 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> But for real time you would just have to remove the
>>> GC completely to have the needed guarantees.
>>
>>
>> malloc/free cannot be used in hard real time systems, either. malloc/free do not
>> have latency guarantees.
>
> By estimating the resource needs and preallocating a freelist, you can
> get round this issue. C++ is quite good at supporting this sort of
> stuff.


Yes, and you can do that in D, the same way.