Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/5/14, 12:20 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 20:04:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I said it a couple of times, and it seems it bears repeating: the
>> charter of this is solely to create a slice type that takes care of
>> itself. What this is not is a general solution for managing internal
>> pointers or pointers to arbitrary objects.
>
> Then I think this is starting in the wrong end of the problem space.
> Slices are tiny dots in this picture.

I'm confused. Slices are the bulkiest allocation there is: chunks of 
contiguous data.

> It would be better to have a RC compiler switch and version{} statements
> in the libraries rather than having extensive special casing of RC/GC
> vs pure GC types in user code.

I don't see where the extensive casing comes from. User code decides 
which way they want and they go for it. Simple aliases make certain 
decisions swappable.


Andrei