Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/5/14, 1:05 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:38:54 -0800, Kagamin <spam at here.lot> wrote:
>
>> My understanding was that ARC completely replaces GC and everything
>> including slices becomes refcounted. Is having mixed incompatible GC
>> and ARC code and trying to get them interoperate a good idea? Can you
>> sell such mixed code to ARC guys?
>
> I've been asking myself those questions a lot over the past couple days.
> If GC backed ARC is such a brilliant idea, how come nobody has done it
> yet?

It's a classic.

Andrei