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From: bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com>
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Subject: reference count size
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:42:05 -0700 (PDT)
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What is the typical size of a reference count?  32 bits?  So, does this add 4 bytes to the size of every object?