radical ideas about GC and ARC : need to be time driven?

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 21:54:51 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
> I don't really understand why there is no parser with something 
> like slices in a language without GC. It's not possible to put 
> the array to a more globally place, then the parser API will 
> use 2 indexes instead of the buffer as parameter?

Slices are counterproductive if you want to provide 
standard-compliant xml implementation, i.e. unescape strings. It 
also requires more memory to hold entire xml document and can't 
collect nodes, which became unused. Usually xml parsers use a 
string table to reuse all repetitive strings in xml, reducing 
memory requirements.