June 24, 2015
6:19 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
We've also tried moving refcounts to their own pages, like you and Nick suggest, but it breaks a *lot* of third-party code. I can try to upstream it. If it's guarded by a compiler flag it is probably still useful, just any users would have to grep through their dependencies to make sure nothing directly accesses the refcount. (The stdlib can be made to work.) It sounds like it would also be useful for the main project in the topic of this thread, so I imagine there's more momentum behind it.
Any indication of the performance impact? -eric