Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/14, 6:04 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
destructors are for cleaning up non-GC resources. File handles, malloc'd
memory, etc. I don't see why these need to be eliminated.

Virtually all GCs are known to be horrible at managing scarce resources 
(including memory itself). Giving the task of managing such to the GC is 
like making the cross-eyed guy be the shooter in 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sen8Tn8CBA4.

Andrei