Unfortunately, the reasons for abandoning that approach weren't discussed on the mailing list. There may have been some IRC chatter, but I wouldn't know. The approach is outlined here:
https://github.com/elliottslaughter/rust-gc-notes And here's a presentation on it: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-gc/ Then, here is a proposal to go in a different direction: http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/06/02/removing-garbage-collection-from-the-rust-language/ On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Addendum: the idea of doing a register type inference pass, and forcing a > reload when the type can't be inferred, is an interesting approach. Any idea > why the Rust team dropped that? > > _______________________________________________ > bitc-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev > _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
