On 2/5/14, 12:20 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<[email protected]>" wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 20:04:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I said it a couple of times, and it seems it bears repeating: the
charter of this is solely to create a slice type that takes care of
itself. What this is not is a general solution for managing internal
pointers or pointers to arbitrary objects.
Then I think this is starting in the wrong end of the problem space.
Slices are tiny dots in this picture.
I'm confused. Slices are the bulkiest allocation there is: chunks of
contiguous data.
It would be better to have a RC compiler switch and version{} statements
in the libraries rather than having extensive special casing of RC/GC
vs pure GC types in user code.
I don't see where the extensive casing comes from. User code decides
which way they want and they go for it. Simple aliases make certain
decisions swappable.
Andrei
