Safe reference counting cannot be implemented as a library

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Tue Oct 27 13:21:40 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 20:19:42 UTC, PuglyWUgly wrote:
>  Why care about this?
>
>  Even Rust doesn't try to solve this problem...because it isn't 
> really a problem in practice.
>
>  In c++/rust code you use value/unique types 99.9% of the time, 
> and reference counting is only for shared/aliased objects.
>
>
>  Reference counting == rare and unimportant

+1


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