More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

Nick B via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 2 18:32:31 PDT 2014


I forgot to add these comments by walter at the top of my 
previous post:


> [walter Bright wrote ] the thing is, GC is a terrible and 
> unreliable method of managing non-memory
resource lifetimes. Destructors for GC objects are not guaranteed 
to ever run.


> So now it looks like dynamic arrays also can't contain structs 
> with destructors :o). -- Andrei

Nick


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