On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 07:47:20 UTC, Suminda Dharmasena wrote:
Hi,

I am wondering if there is interest in the community to introduce alternatives to GC. E.g. reference counting and a static analysis system which traces allocation / deallocation points which can be used to insert the needed operations transparent to the user.

Suminda

There is an effort already under way to make the GC optional and to introduce reference counting. Search the newsgroup there are a few threads about it.

std.allocator ready for some abuse
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l4btsk$5u8$1...@digitalmars.com

Componentizing D's garbage collector
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lao9fn$1d70$1...@digitalmars.com

Next step on reference counting topics
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lkr5oh$1qol$1...@digitalmars.com

Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lv5iob$f9h$1...@digitalmars.com

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