i used to c-style pointer heavy programming, is it wise to code c-style on d platfrom, i mean by turning off GC and stuff.

If you're going to write C code in D, what's the point of using D? The GC is your friend, usually, and unless you really know a lot about its functions, just let it do its thing. Of course, if you're porting C code over, that's a different matter, but when writing new D code, try to use the language advantages as much as possible.

On 2008-11-05 17:22, ViktorKrescvohn wrote:
> i used to c-style pointer heavy programming, is it wise to code c-style on d platfrom, i mean by turning off GC and stuff.

ViktorKrescvohn Wrote:

> i used to c-style pointer heavy programming, is it wise to code c-style on d platfrom, i mean by turning off GC and stuff.

I think, turning off GC is possible if you rewrite Phobos or get rid of it completely.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM, ore-sama <spam@here.lot> wrote:
> ViktorKrescvohn Wrote:
>
>> i used to c-style pointer heavy programming, is it wise to code c-style on d platfrom, i mean by turning off GC and stuff.
>
> I think, turning off GC is possible if you rewrite Phobos or get rid of it completely.
>

You can also do:

GC.disable();

But giving up the GC means giving up some features, like array concatenation and associative, not because they wouldn't work, but because they would leak memory and there would be no way to free the garbage that they create.

Long story short - why use D if you aren't going to be able to take advantage of the very things that make it cool?

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> Long story short - why use D if you aren't going to be able to take advantage of the very things that make it cool?

Not only GC makes it cool. D has a number of other features.