On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:26:12 +0000, Kagamin wrote:

> That's a repetition of C++ atavism, that resource management == memory
> management. IStream is a traditional example of a GC-managed object,
> which needs deterministic destruction, and not because it consumes
> memory, but because it encapsulates an unmanaged resource, it has
> nothing to do with memory management, malloc and free.

and it can't be managed by GC too. that's why it has it's own crappy 
pseudo-gc implementation with refcounting. *and* it's memory managemet 
too, heh.

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