On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:29:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/30/14, 11:15 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
It doesn't and CAN'T. As long as there is a pointer into the
block it
stays. There are plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot
if this
rule is not respected. Anyhow, for starters, a conservative GC
doesn't
know what is a slice when ptr/length sits in registers!
Yah, if you find a register possibly pointing somewhere in the
middle of an array, all bets are off.
But let's say that's not the case and all that's pointing in a
1M elements int[] is a int[] of 5 elements somewhere in the
middle. Do we want to support these?
s = s.ptr[-1 .. $ + 1]
and such?
I guess this is related to the reason Java switched its substring
method to make a copy instead of hold a reference?
