The "@safe vs struct destructor" dilemma

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 23:02:55 -0400, Michel Fortin  
<michel.fortin at michelf.ca> wrote:

> Well, they are safe as long as they're not called by the GC. I think you  
> could make them safe even with the GC by changing things this way:
>
> 1- make the GC call the destructor in the same thread the object was  
> created in (for non-shared objects), so any access to thread-local stuff  
> stays in the right thread, avoiding low-level races.

This needs to be done sooner rather than later. It would solve a lot of GC  
annoyances.

I think in the ARC discussion, it also came up as a necessary step.

-Steve