Let me start just another thread, to remove noise from fpc-devel. These
are my opinions about the requirement and use of ARC in FPC:
1) ARC has been introduced in Delphi for *mobile* platforms (only), so a
discussion of its impact on such (small) targets is useless. I'm not
sure which
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
3a) Instead I'd vote for a dynamic implementation, as with Interfaces,
by adding a refcount field and (virtual?) counting methods to TObject.
This overhead should be acceptable, just like for other managed types
(dynamic strings, arrays...). Then the compiler
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
3a) Instead I'd vote for a dynamic implementation, as with Interfaces,
by adding a refcount field and (virtual?) counting methods to TObject.
This overhead should be acceptable, just like for other managed types
(dynamic strings,
