[Vala] User managed memory?

["Kaan Yamanyar" <kaan yamanyar com>]

Hi,

I appreciate wonderful work you are dealing with. I was looking for similar idea for Java then I suddenly came face-to-face with this project.

I hope to see a better eclipse plug-in which integrates easily with full support such syntax highlighting, building, debugging and it is for windows.

Also, I wonder: If you define (if you had not defined already) a keyword like "delete" for memory management (so the developer is fully responsible for memory management), would performance be better? (Please see added line 21 to your List Example below:)

KR,
Kaan Yamanyar

01 using GLib;
02
03 public static int main (string[] args) {
04    List<string> list = new List<string> ();
05    list.append ("one");
06    list.append ("two");
07    list.append ("three");
08   
09    stdout.printf ("list.length () = %u\n", list.length ());
10
11    // Traditional iteration
12    for (int i = 0; i < list.length (); i++) {
13        stdout.printf ("%s\n", list.nth_data (i));
14    }
15
16    // Comfortable iteration
17    foreach (string element in list) {
18        stdout.printf ("%s\n", element);
19    }
20   
21    delete list; //USER MANAGED MEMORY ??
22    return 0;
23 }