DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/22/2014 12:11 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 22/04/14 01:02, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> The thing is, with iOS ARC, it cannot be statically guaranteed to be
>> memory safe. This makes it simply not acceptable for D in the general
>> case. It "works" with iOS because iOS allows all kinds of (unsafe) ways
>> to escape it, and it must offer those ways because it is not performant.
>
> So does D. That's why there is @safe, @trusted and @system. What is the unsafe
> part of ARC anyway?

As I said, it is when it is bypassed for performance reasons.