More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/14, 6:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 4/30/14, 6:04 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> destructors are for cleaning up non-GC resources. File handles, malloc'd
>> memory, etc. I don't see why these need to be eliminated.
>
> Virtually all GCs are known to be horrible at managing scarce resources
> (including memory itself).

Here the paren means "... when memory is scarce". GCs work well only in 
3x+ the memory needed. -- Andrei