On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 16:13:40 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
If you add reference counting or a GC to the compiler, it will make those large projects compile, but it will inevitably be slower than now. That's why Walter disabled GC completely in the compiler (turning it on made the compiler really slow).
AFAIK, he was talking about a whole compiler GC and not a CTFE only GC/RC. AFAIK, before the data structures created by CTFE join the AST, they get "scrubbed" which could help us implement a self-contained memory managing strategy for CTFE.
