On 19 October 2011 08:42, Duncan Sands wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > >>> I also agree with you that GCC architecture is messy, and that scares >>> newscomer a lot. >>> >> >> Yes, but the way we improve it isn't, in my opinion, adding more GC. >> First we would like to remove complexity, and I do not think we should >> start by focusing on storage management until we get a clearer idea >> about lifetime of data structures we manipulate and how they mesh. >> We might find out (as I suspect) that the builtin GC of C (or C++) is >> remarkable at the job, provided we have a design that makes the >> lifetime obvious and take advantage of it. > > what you say sounds very sensible to me. If you look at LLVM, most memory > management is done by using container objects (vectors, maps etc) that > automatically free memory when they go out of scope. This takes care > of 99% of memory management in a clean and simple way, which is a great > situation to be in.
And LLVM seems to be very popular with newcomers to the code base. My impression is that noone working with the code is intimidated by properly-managed object lifetimes and the lack of garbage collection.
