On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 18:08:31 UTC, po wrote:
I'm not sure about that discussion, but there's good evidence
from C++ that refcounting with atomics works. What was the
smoking gun?
http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/045.htm
I don't see how that link answers Andrei's question? He just
compares different methods of implementing COW.
As I understand the issue it works if you make sure to transfer
ownership explicitly before the other thread gains access?
Maybe this is more clear:
http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/object-life-time-management/differential-reference-counting
