Chris Sells added reference counting to the open source "Rotor" release years ago. This was to test whether GC overhead was indeed an overhead over deterministi

Chris Sells added reference counting to the open source "Rotor" release years ago. This was to test whether GC overhead was indeed an overhead over deterministic finalization. http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/refcount_rotor.doc http://www.sellsbrothers.com/writing/refcount_rotor.doc I'll let you come to your own conclusions about the results :)