Warp wrote:
> (Naturally if it's a long chain of references, destroying the first
> object will destroy all the others like dominoes falling.)

That's where the "nondeterministic time" comes in with reference 
counting, just so you recognise.

>> Reference counting really is far too simplistic to work properly.
> 
>   Well, as long as you don't have circular references (there are ways
> to make it *difficult* to create them) I don't see a problem.

That's the primary problem, yes. That, and the size of the counter, if 
it needs to be the same as the size of a pointer. And that it's probably 
the slowest way to do GC.

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