My Long Term Vision for the D programming language

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 19 November 2021 at 12:45:45 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
>
> On 20/11/2021 1:34 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> Anyway, I am in favour of ARC for shared and local GC with 
>> actors for non-shared. I think that model fits well with most 
>> D users expect and also where hardware is heading.
>
> I'm more in favor of ARC completely. Tie it into scope, and the 
> compiler can elide the calls. Add an operator overload so that 
> you can get a non-scope reference to memory and it might be a 
> very nice situation for us.

Just beware of not relying too much in such optimizations,

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