[fpc-devel] weak referencing (was Suggestion:.....)

[Giuliano Colla]

Il 23/09/2014 02:24, John Briggs ha scritto:
>> Sven
>> At the risk of starting a flame war I have been pondering this question
>> since these threads have started:
>>
>> Why has there been so many messages on this list debating the pros and cons
>> of reference counting objects?

Because many of us are scared to death from the idea of adding as a 
default a "feature" which could break millions of lines of existing 
code, degrade performance, and create incredible debugging headaches, 
without bringing any benefit to the overwhelming majority of users.

Giuliano