[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 22 08:03:08 CEST 2014


On 22.09.2014 00:13, Boian Mitov wrote:
> We probably should if possible keep pointers just pointers (Ref counted
> pointer is same a non ref counted as we discussed so same size).
> Otherwise we may end up adding bits for the Moon Phases or something in it.
> Even if we add ARC we should do it as simple as possible and without
> increasing the size of the pointers (After all Delphi already has done
> it, and their ref counted pointers are still 4 bytes for 32 bit processes).

Definitely! :)

Regards,
Sven




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