Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

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Wed Feb 5 00:06:29 PST 2014


On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 07:45:26 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> In an RC system you must collect cycles. ARC leaves that to the 
> programmer in the form of weak pointers. This particular idea 
> automates that.

Having GC as a backup for cycles doesn't prevent making 
everything transparently refcounted. As to allocation strategies, 
the code can just use compatible allocation strategy.


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