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Re: RFC - Alternatives to gengtype

On 11/18/2012 07:06 PM, NightStrike wrote:

What's wrong with std::shared_ptr?

The pointer needs two words, and the per-object overhead for the reference counts etc. is four words, if I'm counting correctly.

(Other forms of reference counting have less overhead, of course, but you were asking about std::shared_ptr.)

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