DIP60: @nogc attribute

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 17 April 2014 10:06, Michel Fortin via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 2014-04-16 23:20:07 +0000, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
> said:
>
>  On 4/16/2014 3:42 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> ARC may in fact be the most advantageous for a specific use case, but
>>> that in no
>>> way means that all use cases will see a performance improvement, and in
>>> all
>>> likelihood, may see a decrease in performance.
>>>
>>
>> Right on. Pervasive ARC is very costly, meaning that one will have to
>> define alongside it all kinds of schemes to mitigate those costs, all of
>> which are expensive for the programmer to get right.
>>
>
> It's not just ARC. As far as I know, most GC algorithms require some
> action to be taken when changing the value of a pointer. If you're seeing
> this as unnecessary bloat, then there's not much hope in a better GC for D
> either.
>

Indeed.

But beyond that I wonder if @nogc won't entrench that stance even more.


This is *precisely* my concern. I'm really worried about this.
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