Small @nogc experience report

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 8 September 2018 at 08:32:58 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 8 September 2018 at 08:07:07 UTC, Peter Alexander 
> wrote:
>> I'd love to know if anyone is making good use of @nogc in a 
>> larger code base and is happy with it. Weka.io?
>
> Not Weka but we are happy with @nogc and without @nogc our job 
> would be impossible.
>
> You don't like it fine. But I can guarantee it has its uses.
>
> There is no other choice when the runtime is disabled but to 
> have @nogc.
> It's a fantastic peace of mind for high-performance to be able 
> to _enforce_ something will not allocate. If anything, that's 
> superior to C++ when copying a std::vector will trigger an 
> allocation etc.

Thanks for chiming in. That's good to know.