On 2/22/15 8:50 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 20:48:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
What ??? That mean writing all library code twice, for client that want
GC and for these who don't.
I'm not 100% convinced but it seems to me RC vs. GC is a class design
time decision.
The right strategy for memory management depend on the usage you'll do
of an object, not of the object itself.
I used to think the same. But then I considered typechecking things like:
class Widget
{
private char name[1024];
char[] getName() { return name[]; }
...
}
Such code is safe if Widget is a GC class but not if it uses reference
counting.
Andrei
