On Sunday, 16 May 2021 at 03:46:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote: > > The fact that dmd does not ship with GC enabled speaks > volumes... Hardly. dmd doesn't release memory, either. Does that "speak volumes" about free? Neither is suitable for Walter's performance goals with dmd. That's precisely why D allows you to disable or avoid the GC when you need to.