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From: Kevlin Henney (kevlin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-18 12:02:57


> From: "Fernando Cacciola" <fcacciola_at_[hidden]>
>From: David Abrahams <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
>
>> Can we do better with a single-pointer-chained-count design?
>>
>> +-ptr-+ +-count-+ +-target-+
>> | | | | | | |
>> | *=======>| 1 | *======>| |
>> | | | | | | |
>> +-----+ +---+---+ +--------+
>>
>I'm not aware of this design. Could you point me to any online reference
>that I can look at?

This is one of six basic configurations that you can use to express
reference counting. See my EuroPLoP paper from this year ("C++ Patterns:
Reference Accounting") for more:

        http://www.hillside.net/patterns/EuroPLoP/papers/Henney.zip

Kevlin
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