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

[Manu via Digitalmars-d]

On 23 September 2014 14:41, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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.


How so? In what instances are complicated templates superior to a language
RC type?

 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.


Where is this discussion? Last time I raised it, it was fiercely shut down
and dismissed.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/attachments/20140923/000e0bed/attachment.html>