Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:13:47 -0500, Justin Tulloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Your idea can be combined with the maxint/2 initial refcount for >>> non-disposable objects, which should about eliminate thread-count updates >>> for them. >>> -- >>> >> I don't really like the maxint/2 idea because it requires us to >> differentiate between globals and everything else. Plus, it's a hack. I'd >> like a more elegant solution if possible. > > It's not really a solution either. If your program runs for a couple > minutes and then exits, maybe it won't trigger some catastrophic behavior > from this hack, but if you have a long running process then you're almost > certain to be screwed over by this (it wouldn't even have to be *very* > long running - a month or two could do it on a 32bit platform). > Could each class define the value to be added to or subtracted from the refcount? We'd only need a bit to store the value (since it would always be zero or one), but the execution time might increase quite a lot if there's no nifty way to conditionally add or subtract one.
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