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There are some non-defered reference counting that can offer pretty good performance(within 19% of defered reference counting), while still offering determinis

• rbehrends 13y ago
  Yes, but they have the same problem that they require compiler smarts; i.e., they require more than a template to implement shared_ptr<T>. When you're doing that, you may just as well implement something more sophisticated for automated memory management. The attraction of RAII is that it's a pretty simple mechanism that doesn't require compiler intervention outside of basic, already existing optimizations such as inlining.