On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 18:49:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
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
Considering glopbal here means thread local, I think it does make
sense to use global for various forms of cache.
