On 17 April 2014 23:14, Orvid King via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I think the biggest advantage to this distinction would really be the > cross-language API's, the GC can determine which pointers it owns, > although I don't believe it currently exposes this capability. > But in a lightning fast way? Let's imagine ARC refcounts were stored at ptr[-1], how can we know if this is a managed pointer or not? I think the major hurdle in an ARC implementation is distinguishing a managed pointer from a malloc pointer without making (breaking?) changes to the type system. I would also find this useful in language boundary interaction though. I have had numerous issues identifying proper handling of cross-language memory.
