More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

Manu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 10 08:31:24 PDT 2014


On 11 May 2014 00:23, Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 May 2014 at 13:50:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, 10 May 2014 at 13:33:40 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> It should be noted that reference counting can also cause large stalls when
> a root object is freed, causing a cascade of decrements-to-zero, which would
> have been handled better by a GC.

That problem is sooo easy to deal with by contrast. And the programmer
maintains control.


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