More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/30/14, 1:57 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:45:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> An extreme one indeed, it would break a lot of my code. Every D project
>>> I wrote that does networking manages memory using a class that resides
>>> on the managed heap, but holds the actual wrapped data in the unmanaged
>>> heap.
>>
>> So should I take it those classes all have destructors? --
>
> One class, many instances (one for every chunk of data sent or received).

The question is, how comfortable are you with today's reality that some 
of those instances may be never destroyed? -- Andrei