Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

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On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 17:23:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> I'm not sure about that discussion, but there's good evidence 
> from C++ that refcounting with atomics works. What was the 
> smoking gun?

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