Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 13:13:34 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>
> If you are suggesting we somehow make this work so it can be a 
> drop-in replacement for `string`:

Yes, you must be able to get a RCString from one thread to the 
next.

>
> I don't think that should be implicitly supported.
>

Well, it should be at least supported in phobos.

How is another matter.

>
> Maybe the right solution involves integration with 
> std.typecons.Unique. Passing an instance of Unique!T to another 
> thread is something std.concurrency should support, and 
> RCString could be given a method that returns Unique!RCString 
> if the reference count is 1 and errors otherwise. Unique's 
> current implementation would have to be overhauled to carry its 
> payload in-situ instead of on the GC heap like it currently 
> does, but that's something we should do regardless.

Sounds good.