From: Morten Welinder <terra@diku.dk> Date: 12 Aug 2002 21:09:41 -0000 The hardest part probably is that ref-counting requires more discipline than a lot of people can muster. Frankly, nobody who wants to improve GCCs runtime performance can reasonably complain about this "dicipline" in the same breath :-) Others can feel free to disagree.