Future of SafeRefCounted

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 09:08:01 UTC 2025


On Sunday, 23 February 2025 at 20:02:03 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> If you want to get rid of the GC dependency, you can use arena 
> allocation. ([I talked about this last 
> DConf](https://dconf.org/2024/index.html#dennisk))

In general I approve of using arena allocators. RC is useful, but 
I'd like to avoid RC as much as possible in Phobos. We have a GC, 
and we're getting a vastly improved one. For cases where the GC 
cannot be used, almost anything is better than RC.


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