Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 16:15:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:56:11AM +0000, via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 05:52:37 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
>> wrote:
>> >Well, I think interesting part we're trying to look at here 
>> >is the ARC's
>> >impact on speed.
>> 
>> ARC without deep whole program analysis is bound to be slow.
> [...]
>
> But isn't whole program analysis impractical with D's separate
> compilation model?
>
>
> T

It is certainly doable in release build, granted one have a
powerful enough computer. Probably no realistic for fast, debug
builds.