Ref counting for CTFE?

[safety0ff via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 16:13:40 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>
> If you add reference counting or a GC to the compiler, it will 
> make those large projects compile, but it will inevitably be 
> slower than now. That's why Walter disabled GC completely in 
> the compiler (turning it on made the compiler really slow).

AFAIK, he was talking about a whole compiler GC and not a CTFE 
only GC/RC.
AFAIK, before the data structures created by CTFE join the AST, 
they get "scrubbed" which could help us implement a 
self-contained memory managing strategy for CTFE.