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

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d]

On 15.09.2014 11:31, Ola Fosheim Gr wrote:
> On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 18:08:31 UTC, po 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?
>>>
>>> http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/045.htm
>>
>>  I don't see how that link answers Andrei's question? He just compares
>> different methods of implementing COW.
>
> As I understand the issue it works if you make sure to transfer
> ownership explicitly before the other thread gains access?
>
> Maybe this is more clear:
>
> http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/object-life-time-management/differential-reference-counting
>

This describes the scenario I meant in the ARC discussions.

Thanks for the link, I didn't know a solution exists. I'll have to study 
the "differential" approach to see if it works for our case and at what 
cost it comes...