Smart pointers instead of GC?

Shammah Chancellor anonymous at coward.com
Tue Feb 4 04:10:35 PST 2014


On 2014-02-04 06:50:51 +0000, Walter Bright said:

> On 2/3/2014 1:42 PM, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
>> It's also probably
>> possible to create a drop-in replacement for the GC to do something else.
> 
> It certainly is possible. There's nothing magic about the current GC, 
> it's just library code.

Is it possible that we add some additional functionality to the GC API 
so that it could do ARC?  I took a look at it, and it seems that right 
now, there'd be no way to implement ARC.

-S.



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