Ehem, ARM

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-15 14:38, Michel Fortin wrote:

> You mean if Walter would accept D/Objective-C without ARC? No idea. Ask
> him, or submit a pull request just to gauge the reaction.

No, I was referring to just implementing ARC like it's done in Objective-C.

> People have been manually managing memory with
> retain/release/autorelease for more than a decade and it worked pretty
> well, much better than any other manual reference counting scheme out
> there. One problem with introducing ARC later is that you'll need a
> compiler flag to disable or enable ARC to support both legacy and new code.

That's true.

> Personally, I'd be more bothered by the lack of 64-bit than the lack of
> ARC, but that might be just because I'm good with
> retain/release/autorelease.

Both are important. Although, I personally don't have a need for 64bit, 
but it's nice to have the modern runtime.

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/Jacob Carlborg