Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

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Mon Feb 23 01:01:49 PST 2015


On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 08:50:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/23/2015 12:33 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 08:27:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>> Thanks to the messed up modular arithmetics that D has chosen 
>>> you cannot
>>> assume the a non-shared live object does not have a rc==0 due 
>>> to wrapping
>>> integers, in the general case.
>>
>> You mean when there are more than 2^64 references to the 
>> object?
>
> Yeah, it'll wrap when there are more references than can even 
> theoretically fit in the address space.
>
> I'm not worried about it :-)

You don't worry about a lot of things that you ought to worry 
about :-P


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