draft proposal for ref counting in D

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 14 October 2013 at 19:42:36 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
> Indeed. The current garbage collector makes it easy to have 
> shared pointers to shared objects. But the GC can also 
> interrupt real-time threads for an unpredictable duration, how 
> do you cope with that in a real-time thread?
>
> I know ARC isn't the ideal solution for all use cases. But 
> neither is the GC, especially for real-time applications. So, 
> which one would you recommend for a project having a real-time 
> audio thread?

If you don't want any pause, concurrent GC is the way to go. This 
type of GC come at a cost of increased memory usage (everything 
is a tradeoff) but exists.