On 3/3/15 10:22 AM, Zach the Mystic wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 17:40:59 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
All instances need to carry a pointer to refcount anyway, so the
freelist could just be stored next to the refcount. The idea of
creating that list, however, is more worrying, because it again
involves allocations. It can get arbitrarily long.
If the last RcType is a global, will the list ever get freed at all?
No. Making a global variable of a reference counted type would be poor
design.
Andrei
