More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/3/14, 1:49 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> 2) Quit D. (which is becomeing more and more an option when reading the
> recent news group discussions.)

The entire idea of starting these discussions is to gather a sense of 
shared vision with the community on the best direction to follow.

I'm trying to steer things so as to gain the maximum benefit from each 
potential breakage. In wake of that, it seems incongruous that first you 
ask for even larger breaking changes to the language, but then consider 
quitting it entirely on account of changes being too disruptive.

Anyhow, just to clarify, it seems like eliminating destructor calls 
during GC is not a viable option. I'll define std.allocator to allow 
users to define such a GC if they so want, without prescribing either 
policy.


Andrei