More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 00:44:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

Well I was talking with no data indeed.