On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 15:53:06 +0000, Marc Schütz wrote: >> However, AFAICS, it comes with a serious problem. Immutable objects are >> freely passable between threads, so surely an immutable RC object would >> need atomic counting just like a shared RC object, but unlike shared, >> immutable does not necessarily express the intent of sharing between >> threads; the immutable RC object could easily be counting atomically >> for nothing. > > Argh! I didn't think about this. Any chance we can deprecate this > behaviour? It's also an obstacle for the implementation of thread-local > heaps.
but deprecating this is... illogical at best. immutable objects are immutable, so why can't i pass 'em to any thread? do you mean that i can't use `immutable string = "mystr";` in different threads without copying anymore?
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