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Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com> writes:
> OK. What about refcounting with smart pointers?

This form of GC actually works against your determinism goal. It simply is a
poor form of GC, can't handle cycles, and has unpredictable execution times.

A "real" GC smoothes out the collection costs.

But your main points of needing scoped-based resource control I indeed agree
with. My thing is convenience: sometimes that is simple wrappers with
destructors to cleanup after any possible scope exit, sometimes that is the
"WithResource" wrapper function pattern.

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