Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/22/14, 8:03 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I still think most of those users would accept RC instead of GC. Why not
> support RC in the language, and make all of this library noise redundant?

A combo approach language + library delivers the most punch.

> Library RC can't really optimise well, RC requires language support to
> elide ref fiddling.

For class objects that's what's going to happen indeed.


Andrei