Phobos v3 idea: File interface

[Paul Backus]

On Thursday, 19 September 2024 at 21:43:42 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> System handles must be deterministically cleaned up. If you do 
> not do this, you can run out of handles and then crash.
>
> This is very easy especially for the 100k req/s target, think 
> 10 seconds, not 2 minutes to run out of handles.
>
> I am very willing to say, that RC types cannot go into GC 
> memory (the memory itself can be GC, but the cleanup must be 
> done via RC).
>
> Right now RC is blocked by Walter on owner escape analysis. 
> This is why I'm pushing so hard on this design wise currently.

I don't see why this has to be a hard blocker. D is already 
perfectly capable of using RC for the object lifetime 
(construction and destruction) and GC for the memory lifetime 
(allocation and deallocation).