SmartRef： The Smart Pointer In D

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On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 04:14:11 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> It's reference counting.
>
> Reference counting is like garbage collection, but deamortized. 
> This is better for real-time applications. However, it adds 
> overhead on every assignment and every variable going out of 
> scope.
>
> In D, garbage collection is more expensive than it is in other 
> languages, so the tradeoff is more attractive than it would be 
> in other languages.

Garbage collection in D is more expensive just because of the 
poor implementation, from what I've heard. If that's the case, 
people who work on it should be able to improve it over time.