RE: Understanding RefCounts in Falcon

[Vladislav Vaintroub]

> The advantage of targeted reference counting is performance.
> The advantage of smart pointers is stability.

I'm about to give up. All discussions during Boston meeting are in vain.
References are non-existent feature of C++ and it is not possible to prevent
copying and object when it is passed as function parameter. Therefore  smart
pointers are slow. 

> From: Kevin.Lewis@stripped [mailto:Kevin.Lewis@stripped]
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 7:07 PM
> To: falcon@stripped
> Subject: Understanding RefCounts in Falcon