On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 03:45:34 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 03:27:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
I'm more and more convinced that even RC system should not try
to decrement and leak (ie delegate to the GC) when unwinding.
Wouldn't exceptions then still have to be registered to and
then scanned by the GC? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?
GC is only a problem when it collects, which won't happen often
if you don't leak that much. Used as a malloc/free, there is no
reason for it to be slower than a malloc/free (a fast malloc
already needs to be able to find the allocation metadata from
free's argument effisciently, so you you got what you need for a
GC already).
