Phobos v3 idea: File interface

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 21/09/2024 5:34 AM, Paul Backus wrote:
> 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).

For structs yes.

But this thread is all about system handles being owned by classes, 
which don't offer this capability (currently).