>> Kevin Lewis wrote;
>> The advantage of targeted reference counting is performance.
>> The advantage of smart pointers is stability.
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@stripped> wrote:
> 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.
Vlad, your sarcasm may have been misunderstood. C++ does support
passing references and this can be done to smart pointers without
causing an interlocked increment between functions. But I was talking
about multiple copies of pointers within functions and using them for
some duration of time, even in sub-functions. Targeted reference
counting can reduce interlocked increments even if passing pointers by
reference.
Do you think this is negligible or can be worked around somehow?
