On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 17:39:14 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio
wrote:
On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 17:32:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Monday, 16 December 2013 at 00:53:21 UTC, Walter Bright
Good idea. I suggest writing a pull request against the
documentation for this.
That is a bad idea as it preclude any GC optimization based on
immutability.
What do you mean by this? How can a change in the documentation
preclude GC optimization? Does our GC read docs to understand
what can be collected? Now I get it: it's a stop the world,
then RTFM, then collect GC implementation :)
The GC won't know about you bypassing the type system. It never
will. It suddenly that isn't undefined behavior anymore, it
become impossible for the GC to take advantage of type qualifier.
