DIP60: @nogc attribute

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 4/17/2014 5:09 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >I thought that whole point of *A*RC is for the compiler to know when
> >ref count updates can be skipped? Or are you saying this is
> >algorithmically undecidable in the compiler?
> 
> I don't think anyone has produced a "sufficiently smart compiler" in
> that regard.

So what are some optimizations that compilers *are* currently able to
do, and what currently isn't done?


T

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