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@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ After finishing the new socket implementation will land in the `net` package and ones. -## Basic usage +## NogcD + +To achieve programming without the Garbage Collection tanya uses a subset of D: +NogcD. ### Allocators @@ -113,7 +116,7 @@ catch (Exception e) } ``` -### Containers +### Built-in array operations and containers Arrays are commonly used in programming. D's built-in arrays often rely on the GC. It is inconvenient to change their size, reserve memory for future use and @@ -143,6 +146,25 @@ int i = arr[7]; // Access 8th element. There are more containers in the `tanya.container` package. +### Immutability + +Immutability doesn't play nice with manual memory management since the +allocated storage should be initialized (mutated) and then released (mutated). +`immutable` is used only for non-local immutable declarations (that are +evaluated at compile time), static immutable data, strings (`immutable(char)[]`, +`immutable(wchar)[]` and `immutable(dchar)[]`). + + +### Unsupported features + +The following features depend on GC and aren't supported: + +- `lazy` parameters (allocate a closure which is evaluated when then the +parameter is used) + +- `synchronized` blocks + + ## Development ### Supported compilers @@ -168,12 +190,18 @@ Deprecated features are removed after one release that includes these deprecatio ## Further characteristics -* Tanya is a native D library +- Tanya is a native D library + +- Tanya is cross-platform. The development happens on a 64-bit Linux, but it +is being tested on Windows and FreeBSD as well + +- Tanya favours generic algorithms therefore there is no auto-decoding. Char +arrays are handled as any other array type -* Tanya is cross-platform. The development happens on a 64-bit Linux, but it -is being tested on Windows and FreeBSD as well. +- The library isn't thread-safe yet -* The library isn't thread-safe yet. +- Complex numbers (`cfloat`, `cdouble`, `creal`, `ifloat`, `idouble`, `ireal`) +aren't supported ## Feedback |