[swift-evolution] What about garbage collection?

[Charles Srstka]

> On Feb 8, 2016, at 10:20 PM, Michel Fortin via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> Le 8 févr. 2016 à 16:00, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> a écrit :
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>> I’m personally not interested in requiring a model that requires us to throw away a ton of perfectly good RAM to get an “simpler" programming model - particularly on that adds so many tradeoffs.
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> Me neither. I certainly prefer ARC. Hence one reason I like Swift more than D.
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> I'd just like to point out that a "fake" GC that stops short of actually freeing objects to instead print a warning on the console listing objects to be collected would be a great help to detect and fix cycles early in development.

Isn’t this essentially what the ‘leaks’ tool is?

Charles

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