The "no gc" crowd

[Robert Schadek]

On 10/10/2013 09:33 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I honestly don't think we can solve it a different way without completely 
> redesigning shared. shared is specifically designed such that you have to 
> either cast it way to do anything with it or write all of your code to 
> explicitly work with shared, which is not something that generally makes sense 
> to do unless you're creating a type whose only value is in being shared across 
> threads. Far more frequently, you want to share a type which you would also 
> use normally as a thread-local variable, and that means casting.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
+1