Hi Barry

We've met before. Nice to meet you again, this time electronically.

You suggested that is a different problem that needs a solution. To help maintain focus, I won't respond to that now.

You wrote:
> I'd argue that the ref counts are not interesting at all, only a
> side effect of one possible solution to the object life time problem.

I'm happy for you to regard multi-core reference counting (MCRC) as a toy problem, which won't become part of useful software.

We can learn a lot by understanding a good toy. Einstein was fascinated by the compass, and the spinning top is surprisingly deep.