On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:28:24 -0400, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/21/2014 5:00 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Total replacement of GC with ARC in D will:
This is the wrong straw-man, I'm not advocating for this at all.
Many are when they advocate ARC for D.
Does that preclude you from accepting any kind of ARC for D?
5. Numerous posters here have posited that the overhead of ARC can be
eliminated with a sufficiently smart compiler (which does not exist).
You continue to speak in extremes. People are saying that the compiler can
eliminate most of the needless ARC increments and decrements, not all of
them. Compilers that do this do exist.
Note that shared_ptr would never be able to handle D's slice appending
either.
I know. shared_ptr would, of course, be used at the specific discretion
of the programmer. It would not be under the hood, and it would not be
memory safe.
Doesn't RefCounted do this already?
-Steve
