Allocators and Containers

[Jon Degenhardt via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 17 February 2017 at 04:13:06 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> This is based on conversations I've had with Andrei and Walter 
> on here and on Github.
>
> There was a bunch of threads here about six months ago by 
> Andrei talking about the different problems he was running into 
> when trying to implement @safe and @nogc containers. One of the 
> conclusions was that ref counting was going to have to be a 
> nessesary component of the solution. This led to DIP1000 
> because of Andrei's conclusion that "Safe reference counting 
> cannot be implemented as a library" 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/n0nnu0$1tth$1@digitalmars.com.
>
> Also, there's the vision document, which lays out some goals 
> but does not talk about containers: 
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H1

Excellent, thanks for sharing this.  --Jon