Idea #1 on integrating RC with GC

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 01:21:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> This is a very incomplete, naive sketch. It could be made to 
> work only in a language that has no backward compatibility to 
> worry about.

Whaddya mean? On the object code level? The compiler should be 
conservative and generate the alternatives if needed.

In this day and age a language should aim for whole program 
optimization and static analysis. Not necessarily the 
proof-of-concept compiler, but the language spec.

A system level language should go out of its way to make stack 
and pool allocations likely/possible/probable as well as register 
based optimizations on calls etc.