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On 02/15/2017 04:08 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:57:53PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: >> At the risk of appearing trolling, I'd like to reiterate that another >> possibility is to abandon reference counting altogether and >> instead switch to the boehm gc, just to see how well/poorly that performs. >> The immediately obvious downside would be that >> some thought would have to go into which of the various reliable >> destruction order expectations to support, which might require >> keeping some reference counting around anyway, at least for things that can >> be proven at compile-time to go out of scope, but >> that isn't really dynamic reference counting. > > "patches welcome" > To start, you could produce a proof of concept.Thread Previous | Thread Next