On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 20:57:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Finally, immutable is sharable accross thread. That mean, even
if we
bypass the type system, that RC must be atomic for immutable.
As they
convert automatically for co,st, that mean that all const code
will be
full of atomic increment/decrement. They are bad for the CPU,
and cannot
be optimized away.
Good point. I see that as a problem, albeit a solvable one.
How? Having lock; instructions implicitly appearing in normal
looking slice code is unacceptable.
