Developing with MPQC V2 RefCount

• RefCount base class has reference count member

• Reference counted objects must be allocated on heap

• “Smart pointers” must be used to keep correct reference count

• Smart pointers will delete objects when reference count is decremented to zero

• Smart pointers are thread safe

• Smart pointers are now templates and defined as

  • Ref<X> x;
  • where X is a derivative of RefCount

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