On 23 February 2015 at 11:41, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 01:38:35 UTC, Manu wrote: >> >> All my ref counting types fiddle with the ref in every assignment, or >> every function call and return. > > > Hmm, the optimizer could potentially tell "inc X; dec X;" is useless and > remove it without knowing what it is for.
Yeah, except we're talking about libraries, and in that context I often have: extern(C) IncRef(T*); extern(C) DecRef(T*); Optimiser can't offer anything.
