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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/20/14, 11:01 AM, "Nordlöw" wrote:
> How big overhead is an RC compared to a non-RC GC-free string
> variant?

Ballpark would be probably 1.1-2.5x. But there's of course a bunch of 
variability.

> Perhaps it would be nice to add a template parameter in RCXString
> that makes the RC-optional?

Manual memory management is not part of its charter.

> If I want a *non*-RC GC-free variant of string/wstring/dstring
> what's the best way to define them?

I think you're back to malloc and free kind of stuff.

> Would Array!char, Array!wchar, Array!dchar, be suitable
> solutions? Of course these wouldn't utilize SSO. I'm asking
> because Array is RandomAccess but string/wstring is not
> byCodePoint.

Those are refcounted.


Andrei