On 6/17/15 8:17 AM, rsw0x wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 15:03:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 6/17/15 2:59 AM, "Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= <schue...@gmx.net>"
wrote:
I think this decision should be left to the end-user. A container that
supports only RC is just as bad as one that supports only GC. Instead,
use SList!T or SList!(Unique!T) or SList(RefCounted!T) as appropriate.
All internal metadata, on the other hand, should be treated as owned by
the container. Calling clear() or removing individual elements needs to
destroy the associated meta data, which in turn will correctly call the
payload's (e.g. RefCounted!T or Unique!T) destructor if it has one.
Yah, management strategy refers to the metadata. -- Andrei
Do you plan on std.collections being usable both with and without the GC?
Collections are a perfect candidate for reference counted management.
(a) Orderly structure so the likelihood of cycles is arguably lower than
for arbitrary object models;
(b) "Heavy", i.e. collections tend to be large enough to warrant care
with allocation and deallocation.
-- Andrei
