More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/11/14, 2:49 PM, ponce wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 May 2014 at 21:43:06 UTC, sclytrack wrote:
>>
>> There is very little use of "@", it's mostly  "&" and "~". Heck I
>> didn't find any @ while casually browsing the code. It's like they are
>> not using it at all.
>>
>
> Similarly in current C++ std::shared_ptr is barely there while
> std::unique_ptr is all over the place.

The right tally here would include bald pointers as well. Also, I'm 
quite surprised by the confidence of this assertion. -- Andrei