Reference Counting and Static Checker

[Suminda Dharmasena via Digitalmars-d]

Great. What about Rust like static memory safety analysis. (But 
transparent to the user.)

On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 08:51:17 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> 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