On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 08:06:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 February 2014 at 07:45:26 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
In an RC system you must collect cycles. ARC leaves that to
the programmer in the form of weak pointers. This particular
idea automates that.
Having GC as a backup for cycles doesn't prevent making
everything transparently refcounted. As to allocation
strategies, the code can just use compatible allocation
strategy.
Yes, the GC just needs to check roots for already released
blocks, if I am not mistaken.
