A betterC base

[Mike Franklin]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 17:10:00 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

> What are D's limitations on do-it-yourself reference counting?

  * Types that are built into the language like dynamic arrays, 
associative arrays, and exceptions won't benefit from DIY 
reference counting.
  * Much of Phobos probably wouldn't be compatible with DIY 
reference counting.

That being said, there may be a way to override some runtime 
hooks like _d_newclass 
(https://dlang.org/library/rt/lifetime/_d_newclass.html), etc... 
to make it work.  But I haven't tried.

Also, I think Walter is currently working on getting reference 
counted exceptions into the language:  
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1995

Mike