Re: [Vala] GObject allocation / referencing... Why is so slow?

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

> Yes, it's not the same, but it's a similar implementation, using
> reference counting (it's not atomic, but if you use an sig_atomic_t ref
> variable, instead of the volatile int, you would get atomicity with no
> performance loss at all),

Not true I believe. sig_atomic_t ensures atomicity on an entirely
different level.
It has nothing to do with multi-threaded programming.