Discussion Thread: DIP 1042--ProtoObject--Community Review Round 1

[Elronnd]

On Saturday, 15 January 2022 at 08:33:45 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> `pure` toHash can also be rather problematic in case it returns 
> the address of the object as an integer (as it currently does 
> by default). Pure code should not depend on GC memory addresses.

There has been a comment about that in object.d for over a 
decade; in that time, no one has made a compacting GC.  More 
practically, if somebody does write a compacting GC, it will be 
child's play for them to go and add a 'hash' field to Object and 
change the implementations of cmp and toHash.

(Obviously userspace code should not depend on such mechanisms, 
but for druntime, what is the problem?)