On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 02:14:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/21/2015 4:43 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
D's GC is terrible, and after 6 years hanging out in this
place, I
have seen precisely zero development on the GC front. Nobody
can even
imagine, let alone successfully implement a GC that covers
realtime
use requirements.
Nobody thinks GC is suitable for hard realtime.
On the other hand, if 'scope' is implemented well, D may have
some of
the best tools in town for quality ARC implementation. There
is a
visible way forward for quality RC in D, and I think we could
do
better than Apple.
With 'return ref', which is now implemented, you can create a
memory safe RefCounted type. However, nobody has bothered. Are
you up for it? :-)
Excuse my ignorance,(I read the DIP btw)
How does 'return ref' address issues like
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/pagpusgpyhlhoipld...@forum.dlang.org#post-ewuwphzmubtmykfsywuw:40forum.dlang.org
?
