More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/9/14, 11:27 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> ARC overhead would have no meaningful impact on performance, GC may
> potentially freeze execution. I am certain I would never notice ARC
> overhead on a profiler, and if I did, there are very simple methods to
> shift it elsewhere in the few specific circumstances it emerges.

This is very, very, very wrong. -- Andrei