jmdavisProg

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   by jmdavisProg 13y ago

   Yeah. The "almost entire" applies to std.algorithm. How much allocation goes on elsewhere depends on what module you're talking about. Some definitely avoid it, whereas others definitely require it. That will be (and has been
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   by jmdavisProg 13y ago

   There have been papers on how GCs can be more efficient than manual memory management in some situations, so it's not always the case that RAII is better from a performance standpoint (though I think that it frequently is). But regardl
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   by jmdavisProg 13y ago

   Having D used in production in a big company like Facebook is a big deal. No, it doesn't mean that D has taken over the programming world or anything like that, but it shows that the language is maturing and that real companies are now
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   by jmdavisProg 13y ago

   I think that a lot of confusion has been caused by Go using the term "systems language," because (as I understand it) Go doesn't mean it in the same way that C++ and D do. The Go folks seem to be thinking systems in the sense