On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 08:38:18 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
This is what I was saying all along, in CS GC books reference
counting is usually introduced as poor man's GC solution. As
the most simple way to implement some kind of automatic memory
management, specially in memory constrained devices at the
expense of execution speed.
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Paulo
This is likely a long shot (and may have already been proposed),
but what the heck: If reference counting is considered to be
garbage collection, and D is a garbage collected language, then
can the current form of GC be replaced with a reference counted
version that is fully automated, or does something like that
always have to be manually hand crafted because it is not generic
enough to fit in?
BTW: I did read through the responses concerning by past posts
about the GG and memory safety, and I agree with those responses.
I now have a much better understanding of what is meant by
"memory safety", so thanks to everyone who took the time to
respond to my ramblings, I've learned something new.
--rt
