Re: Why does D rely on a GC?

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 14:51:49 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Ary Borenszweig:
Then here someone from the team says he can't say a way to 
improve the performance by an order of magnitude:

https://www.mail-archive.com/rust-dev@mozilla.org/msg02856.html

(but I don't know how true is that)

Can't they remove some type inference from the language?

They don't know, where is the problem: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/rust-dev@mozilla.org/msg02865.html

 - Non-use of arenas and &, pervasively
They don't use lent pointers. Just as planned.

 - Refcounting traffic
 - Landing pads
 - Cleanup duplication in _any_ scope-exit scenario