On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 01:26:45 UTC, Manu via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 30 September 2014 08:04, Andrei Alexandrescu via
Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On 9/29/14, 10:16 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Personally, I would go just for (b) with compiler support for
increment/decrement removal, as I think it will be too
complex having to
support everything and this will complicate all libraries.
Compiler already knows (after inlining) that ++i and --i
cancel each other,
so we should be in good shape there. -- Andrei
The compiler doesn't know that MyLibrary_AddRef(Thing *t); and
MyLibrary_DecRef(Thing *t); cancel eachother out though...
rc needs primitives that the compiler understands implicitly,
so that
rc logic can be more complex than ++i/--i;
Even with simply i++ and i--, the information that they always go
by pair is lost on the compiler in many cases.
