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2515 :: What are "memory regions"

[2016-09-05T13:28:40+02:00]

didlybom (orginal) [2016-09-05T13:28:40+02:00] view original

In another thread (related to working without a GC) there was some mention of "memory regions". Could somebody kindly give an overview of what they are and how they would be used? Is this something that is being worked on for pre-1.0?

OderWat (orginal) [2016-09-05T13:45:51+02:00] view original

Maybe this will help: Region-Based Memory Management

Afaik it means that you do not count individual allocations but just alloc everything from a block of memory. After leaving the local area you throw away everything. Stuff you want to keep is copied before the destruction.

didlybom (orginal) [2016-09-05T17:38:13+02:00] view original

Thank you. That seems interesting. It seems this could be used to simply memory management when not using a GC... Hopefully the syntax will be nice and will make it easy to add variables to regions and not require manually destroying the region when you area done unless you want to (i.e. make it possible to associate a memory region to a scope, for example).