On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:05:43AM +0100, Daniel Moisset wrote: [snip interesting and informative discussion, thank you]

@Steven D'Aprano: you mentioned soemthign about race conditions but I don't think this algorithm has any (the article you linked just said that doing refcounting in the traditional way and without synchronization in a multi core environment has race conditions, which is not what is being discussed here). Could you expand on this?

Certainly not. I already said that my view of this was very naive. Now that I have a better understanding that Jonathan doesn't have a specific issue to solve, other than "improved performance through better ref counting", I'll most likely just sit back and lurk. -- Steve