On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:40:06 -0400, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
This isn't quite correct. I implemented a GC for Java back in the 90's.
D has semantics that are conducive to GC that C doesn't have, and this
was done based on my experience with GC's. To wit, objects can't have
internal references, so that a moving collector can be implemented.
This isn't correct. Only structs cannot have internal references. Objects
don't move or copy so easily.
Not only that, but internal pointers would not prevent a moving GC.
I don't feel like you've given me any evidence that ARC in not
feasible. Just
that you're not interested in trying it out.
Please, kill it technically. Not just with dismissal and FUD.
I've given you technical reasons. You don't agree with them, that's ok,
but doesn't mean I have not considered your arguments, all of which have
come up before. See the thread for the previous discussion on this. It's
not like I haven't tried.
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
Note, there are much more practical reasons to enable reference counting
-- interoperating natively with Objective-C and iOS/MacOS.
-Steve
