On 4 June 2013 03:41, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> wrote:

Am 03.06.2013 18:00, schrieb Manu:

Haha, wow. Indeed, isn't that well timed with respect to recent
discussions! ;)
Post-dconf, I gave it some serious thought and I'm kinda convincing
myself more and more each day that it's the way to go.

As I mentioned I prefer GC based solutions, but then again I live in the
JVM/.NET world, so I don't have the memory/timing pressure you have to deal with.

I don't expect the GC would go anywhere. It would remain in use in typical computing environments.

It would just be an option for realtime users/embedded platforms.

But when looking at systems programming languages that offer reference counting as the main memory management, ATS, Parasail, Objective-C, and now Rust, all of them share a common feature:

- Compiler support to remove extra increment/decrement operations.

I guess on D's case this support would also be required.

Yeah, indeed. I have no idea how much work that would be. I'm not holding my breath that it'll appear any time soon :)