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Re: Reference counting for matrices
>> I would like to ask if there is any interest in adding
>> reference couting for matrices and how it should be done nicely
>> with GSL.
>> Peter
Brian> It was considered but dropped in favor of explicit memory
Brian> management, for reasons of thread safety.
I have not looked in detail at the issue, so all I know is that
"reference counting helps with VHLL bindings". Is that correct? I
guess it allows you to not have explicitly call a destructor from the
VHLL when the object could be garbage collected.