On Wednesday, 4 March 2015 at 09:06:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/4/2015 12:13 AM, deadalnix wrote:
The #1 argument for DIP25 compared to alternative proposal was
its simplicity. I
assume at this point that we have empirical evidence that this
is NOT the case.
The complexity of a free list doesn't remotely compare to that
of adding an ownership system.
A free list does not work as the data can be live. You cannot
reuse it to maintain the free list. You need to maintain metadata
about allocation in another structure.
Also you cannot free anything until all the refcount are to 0.
This RC system will only cut it for short lived entities.
