draft proposal for ref counting in D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-10-10 04:35, Walter Bright wrote:
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
> On Jul 1, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>  >> I really urge you to make this a separate project.  It's not
> trivial. Logically, it's sound, but the implementation will be very
> difficult.  I also think Sean (and probably others) should be involved
> for that discussion.
>  >
>  > Make what a separate project? The destruction of objects by the GC in
> local threads? It already is not part of the ref counting proposal.
>  >
>
>
> As far as I can tell, the ref counting proposal is not viable without
> it, as long as you insist on non-atomic RC increments and decrements.
> How can it possibly not be a prerequisite to this, and therefore part of
> the proposal?
>
> Unless you are saying now that atomic ref counting is OK?
>
> I'm going by your previous statement:
>
>  > I very much want to avoid requiring atomic counts - it's a major
> performance penalty.
>
>
> -Steve

Is this the last email in the conversation? In that case I think you 
clearly mark that with a post.

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/Jacob Carlborg