More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

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On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 09:05:39 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 08:45:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The only solutions to the libraries problem that I can see here 
> require drastic separation of calls to said libraries from any 
> even vaguely time critical code. This is quite restrictive.

I think this is more of library writing culture problem than 
engineering problem. High quality library shouldn't rely on any 
internal allocations at all, deferring this decision to user 
code. Otherwise you will eventually have problems, GC or not.