BCS wrote:
Hello Andrei,
The nice part about refcounting is that for the most part you don't
need to cripple the language.
I think people are trying to say that disallowing use of GC stuff
wouldn't cripple the language.
Well it's a fact that there would be fewer idioms and options
accessible. So I didn't mean it in a derogatory way as much as a factual
statement.
Also there is one thing that -nogc would have over what you are talking
about; you could use it on some modules and not others. If I have some
performance critical code where attempting to use the GC would break
it's perf contract, I can put it in it's own module and compile just it
with -nogc and then link it in with code that does use the GC.
Meh. This has been discussed in the C++ standardization committee, and
it gets really tricky real fast when you e.g. use together several
libraries, each with its own view of memory management. My impression:
don't.
Andrei
