RFC: reference counted Throwable

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/21/14, 1:57 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> 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.

Exactly and awesomely right. -- Andrei