Re: draft proposal for ref counting in D

[Walter Bright]

Rainer Schuetze wrote:
On 29.06.2013 09:36, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>                         inc [ecx].refcnt
> done:
                          mov [S], ecx

Just wanted to add the book states that lock-free reference counting can be 
implemented with a cas2 operation modifying two seperate locations atomically. 
Unfortunately this operation does not exist in most processors. This might be 
the quoted paper: http://scholr.ly/paper/2199608/lock-free-reference-counting