On 09/23/2014 11:31 AM, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Il 23/09/2014 02:24, John Briggs ha scritto:
Sven
At the risk of starting a flame war I have been pondering this question
since these threads have started:
Why has there been so many messages on this list debating the pros
and cons
of reference counting objects?
Because many of us are scared to death from the idea of adding as a
default a "feature" which could break millions of lines of existing
code, degrade performance, and create incredible debugging headaches,
without bringing any benefit to the overwhelming majority of users.
IMO, it's very unlikely that this feature will be accepted in FPC in a
form that breaks existing code. FPC has always been very strict about
keeping backward compatibility. New features are almost always added in
a way that don't break existing code.
Nikolay
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