On Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 19:34:29 UTC, Alex Rønne
Petersen wrote:
There is a difference: Adding the object itself as a root does
not actually guarantee that the object *itself* might not be
collected. At least, this is how I have to assume things work
given that this is not guaranteed here:
http://dlang.org/phobos/core_memory.html#addRoot
Actually, it does: the internal array of added roots is simply
considered an additional range to be scanned by the GC
implementation. The docs should probably be clarified in this
regard.
David
