More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/14, 1:33 PM, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:21:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We're considering deprecating ~this() for classes in the future.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Slices T[] of structs with destructors shall be silently lowered into
>> RCSlice!T, defined inside object.d
>
> I'm sure instead of outright deprecating destructor for class, we could
> just store them in a RCClass!C (which would be 2 words big).

That's an interesting idea, but the whole notion of converting to Object 
etc. makes the concept difficult (unless we define another root etc).

Andrei