Just for the record: Pramod Joisha did static analysis of redundant reference counting operations in 2006 in the Bartok C# research compiler (http://www.hpl.hp.

Just for the record: Pramod Joisha did static analysis of redundant reference counting operations in 2006 in the Bartok C# research compiler (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Pramod_Joisha/Publications/ismm06.pdf http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Pramod_Joisha/Publications/is...). IIRC, doing it improves performance significantly.