Leave GC collection to the user of the D library?

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On Sunday, 9 May 2021 at 16:08:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
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> I wonder what you think about task-bound GC?
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> https://forum.dlang.org/post/yqdwgbzkmutjzfdhotst@forum.dlang.org

I see it as a special case where memory management is bounded to 
a certain primitive/ways of programming. Also a pool for each 
possible primitive will increase the meta data.

Then you also mention that when the actor is destroyed no scan is 
needed because the pool is explicitly destroyed as well. This is 
basically a form of deterministic cleanup that you would expect 
in C++ when using unique_ptr for example.

Some in that thread mention that D must head towards RC and 
that's what my opinion is as well. As Walter do not want to make 
a special fat pointer type, at least making Phobos/druntime using 
RC internally would be a step in the right direction.