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| Posted by Stanislav Blinov in reply to Greg Strong | PermalinkReply |
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Stanislav Blinov
Posted in reply to Greg Strong
| On Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 22:36:51 UTC, Greg Strong wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 18:47:35 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 18:09:56 UTC, Zoadian wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 02:32:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:57:23AM +0000, zjh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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>>>> Why bend over backwards to please the GC-phobic crowd? They've already made up their minds, there's no convincing them.
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>>>> [...]
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>>> I 100% agree with this. There are more important things that need improvement. GC and no-GC work well enough in D (Exceptions are the only thing that needs a bit of extra work with @nogc).
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>> Yes, we need to focus on the bigger picture
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> Agreed. Trying to please everybody is a losing battle. If the GC is so offensive to you, why are you here? There are other languages.
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> I'm using D to build a chess variant engine where there are recursive functions that call each other a million times a second. I absolutely, positively cannot have any GC happening there! No problem. I pre-allocate what I need and I can further add @nogc to be certain. (Which helped me because there was a place where I was doing a closure that could allocate and I didn't realize it.)
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> ...The hysterical no-gc crowd should find another language.
> That being said, reducing GC usage in phobos is a worth goal...
You realize this particular thread of comments started with a question about being able to use Phobos without GC?..
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