Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 2/24/15 1:33 PM, Ivan Timokhin wrote: >> Is there any plan to allow safe conversions to T[] (in restricted >> circumstances, of course)? > > We'd want to avoid it because that would necessitate the whole "scope" > paraphernalia - e.g you can convert a reference counted slice to > something like scope(T[]). > > A possible option would be to allow the user to go "I want to use GC > with this slice from now on" which gives back the T[] and lets the GC > take care of it. > > But generally I think we should let reference counted slices and > built-in slices coexist. Generic range-based code is easy to write so > factoring the nature of the slice away may be an option. > > > Andrei
Oh. So, whenever you pass a reference-counted slice around, you need to do it with the full inc/dec protocol, which, as Walter has mentioned several times already, leads to code bloat and performance hits. So... no to efficient reference counting? Also, no slicing of static arrays in @safe code?
