[fpc-devel] Proof of Concept ARC implementation

[Michael Schnell]

On 10/27/2014 11:26 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> I think that a cycle detector should be an independent component, just 
> like heaptrc is an independent add-on to detect memory problems in 
> regular programs.

So you suggest cyclic references should be forbidden (erroneous 
programming technique). Are they ?

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> Additionally, as mentioned before, I still believe it's a very bad 
> idea to be able to inherited from a regular class and turn it into a 
> reference counted class. Reference counted and non-reference-counted 
> classes are different language entities with different behaviour and 
> different code generation requirements, and hence should be completely 
> unrelated.

So there simply would be a ref-counted variant of TObject you can 
inherit from use as an option ?

-Michael