More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6 May 2014 16:28, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 06/05/14 05:51, HaraldZealot wrote:
>
>> Manu, can you direct me what is ARC? This abbreviation is very
>> misgooglly.
>
>
> Automatic Reference Counting. Like regular RC but the compiler automatically
> inserts calls to release/free.

And further, more importantly, automatically *eliminates* redundant
calls to add/dec ref, which I think has much greater potential in D's
type system than in Obj-C.