Re: refcounting [WAS: More Rust code]

2017-08-02 Thread Joshua Cranmer 🐧
On 8/2/2017 6:37 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: On 31.07.2017 13:53, smaug wrote: Reference counting is needed always if both JS and C++ can have a pointer to the object. By the way - just curious: Anybody already thought about garbage collection ? Yes. About a decade ago, M

Re: refcounting [WAS: More Rust code]

2017-08-02 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017, at 08:32 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > wrote: > > On 31.07.2017 13:53, smaug wrote: > >> Reference counting is needed always if both JS and C++ can have a > >> pointer to the object. > > > > Anybody already thought

Re: refcounting [WAS: More Rust code]

2017-08-02 Thread Nathan Froyd
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 31.07.2017 13:53, smaug wrote: >> Reference counting is needed always if both JS and C++ can have a >> pointer to the object. > > Anybody already thought about garbage collection ? Reference counting is a garbage collect

refcounting [WAS: More Rust code]

2017-08-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 31.07.2017 13:53, smaug wrote: Reference counting is needed always if both JS and C++ can have a pointer to the object. By the way - just curious: Anybody already thought about garbage collection ? That wouldn't have the problem w/ circular graphs, and should make the whole code smaller