Ref counting for CTFE?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 14:47:57 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 14:16:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 May 2014 22:40:29 -0400, Martin Nowak 
>> <code at dawg.eu> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 15:28:28 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
>>>> If would be nice if Don could elaborate on his comment in 
>>>> bug #6498 (https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6498#c1)
>>>>
>>> What is really needed is the ability to update variables in 
>>> place.
>>> Currently every mutation allocates a new value.
>>
>> Wouldn't ref-counting actually help this?
>>
>> -Steve
>
> You don't need to optimize with ref-counting if you don't
> allocate new instances at all ;)

Even if you do, you could create a pool for allocating CTFE. At
the end, you move objects you are interested in from that pool to
some other memory location and trash the whole pool.