GC for noobs

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 17:31:57 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Isn't it exactly what Phobos RefCounted does?

Yes, though knowing how the implementation works is good for 
stuff like interfacing with C where you might need different 
acquire/free/add count/release functions than phobos uses.

http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#RefCounted

It always uses malloc and free, which isn't always (actually, in 
my cases, is rarely ever) what you want.

It is (obviously) possible to write a generic one that takes 
aliases (or delegates if you want all refcounted things to have 
the same parent type regardless of allocation strategy) for these 
functions, I've done that somewhere on the ng or my http server 
before too, but phobos doesn't do that either.

The phobos one also doesn't let you wrap classes which is 
sometimes useful.