Reference Counting and Static Checker

[Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 07:47:20 UTC, Suminda Dharmasena 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if there is interest in the community to 
> introduce alternatives to GC. E.g. reference counting and a 
> static analysis system which traces allocation / deallocation 
> points which can be used to insert the needed operations 
> transparent to the user.
>
> Suminda

There is an effort already under way to make the GC optional and 
to introduce reference counting. Search the newsgroup there are a 
few threads about it.

std.allocator ready for some abuse
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l4btsk$5u8$1@digitalmars.com

Componentizing D's garbage collector
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lao9fn$1d70$1@digitalmars.com

Next step on reference counting topics
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lkr5oh$1qol$1@digitalmars.com

Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lv5iob$f9h$1@digitalmars.com