OSNews article about C++09 degenerates into C++ vs. D discussion

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Julio César Carrascal Urquijo wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to tell the garbage collector "don't look for 
>> references here" without using malloc and friends?
> 
> Not in its current form, but the modifications to allow this are fairly 
> simple.  The compiler can even set the same flag for dynamic arrays 
> containing elements smaller than pointer size.
> 
> 
> Sean

So as long as I use byte[] or short[] this would be possible in a future 
implementation of the GC, right? Well that's better, at least for 
cryptographic data.

Still sound data is often represented as int/long samples witch could 
pose problems on 32bit or 64bit platforms.

Anyway we still need a better implementation of the GC to address this 
concerns.