Turning off the D garbage collector

Question

I\'m a C++ programmer thats considering using D for a personal project I want to play around with. I was wondering if there\'s a way to completely disable the garbage collector

Answer 1

If you want to use malloc and free use std.c.stdlib. GC will never touch these. std.gc has all the stuff you will need for memory management including disable().

GC isn't a bad thing though. Most if not nearly all libraries in D will have somewhere in the code where memory is not explicitly deleted so it won't make you a hero to have it allways off but ok if you have some critical performance requirement.

GC makes everything a lot more productive like array slicing and creating new objects in parameters without having the caller store a reference anywhere to them. Good code is a lot less of it and with GC code becomes a lot smaller.