On 6/17/2014 12:13 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:56:11AM +0000, via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 05:52:37 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Well, I think interesting part we're trying to look at here is the ARC's
impact on speed.
ARC without deep whole program analysis is bound to be slow.
[...]
But isn't whole program analysis impractical with D's separate
compilation model?
I think that's exactly the concern he's voicing.
Limitations of the separate compilation model have come up before. For
example, the inability to retrieve all the subclasses of a base class.
Pretty sure there's been others, too.
Since whole-program-at-once *is* a common way to use D, I've always felt
that (issues of manpower aside, of course) whole-program-at-once users
shouldn't necessarily be robbed of abilities just because *other*
projects can't use them due to their own usage of separate-compilation.
Sometimes things are mutually exclusive. Doesn't mean we can't let the
user choose their tradeoffs for themselves.
But that's kinda venturing off onto a tangent.
