Ref counting for CTFE?

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On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 14:16:50 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2014 22:40:29 -0400, Martin Nowak <code at dawg.eu> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 15:28:28 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
>>> If would be nice if Don could elaborate on his comment in bug 
>>> #6498 (https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6498#c1)
>>>
>> What is really needed is the ability to update variables in 
>> place.
>> Currently every mutation allocates a new value.
>
> Wouldn't ref-counting actually help this?
>
> -Steve

You don't need to optimize with ref-counting if you don't
allocate new instances at all ;)