RFC: reference counted Throwable

[Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 19:36:01 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Friday, 19 September 2014 at 15:32:38 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Please chime in with thoughts.
>
> Why don't we all focus our efforts on upgrading the current GC 
> to a state-of-the GC making use of D's strongly typed memory 
> model before discussing these things?

GC improvements are critical, but...

"As discussed, having exception objects being GC-allocated is 
clearly a
large liability that we need to address. They prevent otherwise 
careful
functions from being @nogc so they affect even apps that 
otherwise would
be okay with a little litter here and there."

No improvements to the GC can fix this. @nogc needs to be usable, 
whether you are a GC fan or not.