std.container and classes

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/17/11 7:52 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> The only reason that I can think of to use a reference-counted struct instead
> of a class is becuse then it's easier to avoid the GC heap entirely.  Almost
> all of a container's memory is going to end up on the heap regardless, because
> the elements almost never end up in the container itself.

Being on the heap is not the main issue. The main issue is the data 
becoming garbage once all references are gone.

> They're in a dynamic
> array or in nodes or something similar. So, whether the container is ref-
> counted or a class is almost irrelevant.

I think this argument is starting off the wrong premise, and is already 
wrong by this point, so I skipped the rest. Am I right?


Andrei