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[Tim Blechmann]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:17 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> > It's possible to crash Pd using "dynamic editing" (deleting objects
> > reentrantly)
> 
> That might be why I want to use reference counting everywhere.

i can say from my own experience, that using reference counting for
memory management of objects is not a bad idea ... 
the runtime overhead is negligible ... it is possible to write a
dataflow system, that makes use of reference counting and outperforms Pd
by a factor larger than two :)

tim

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