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From: gmc444@yahoo.com (Greg C)
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Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith )
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Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<3C4DE336.3080102@worldnet.att.net>...
[...]
> Copying pointers and using GC or even reference counting is a very
> nice solution for single threaded applications. It becomes a very
> messy solution for multi-threaded applications. Now all those
> copied pointers need to be protected from inappropriate simultaneous
> access by several threads.
> 

LOL! Jim, this sounds like an excellent example of a problem where
it's important to distinguish between deep and shallow copy operators,
which has been a large part of the debate in this thread in the first
place...

Greg