On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 18:28:25 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 September 2013 at 12:19:18 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 4 September 2013 at 07:04:01 UTC, Elvis wrote:
>>> I'm new to D, from what I read in Reddit these days, it's really really bad that D's supporter always claim that D support Manual Memory Management and GC can be disabled , despite the truth that druntime/phobos are parts of D to an end user!
>>> I dislike GC but I dislike misleading much more!
>>
>> It's really possible.
>>
>> You can use malloc/free for manual memory management. For example, Vibe.d use it, and it's really fast.
>
> Wrong.
> Vibe.d uses partial manual memory management but can't get rid of GC completely (and it hurts in certain situations hard)
>

Yes, I know. I just wanted to say: "You can use malloc/free functions to implement custom memory allocators". Sorry for misunderstand.

>> You can disable automatic GC run and run GC manually:
>> http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html
>>
>> Also, you can remove GC at all:
>> https://bitbucket.org/timosi/minlibd/overview
>
> It is the very same misadvertising. No one cares about what you can. D has inline assembly, you can possibly do anything. What does matter and what people expect is doing something conveniently. And D is not there right now.
>
> Again, it can become much better with relatively few tweaks to the compiler. But it is not _right now_ and that is the only thing that does matter.

Yes, we need memory allocators. Do you know have we got any progress here?