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...s is very exciting news. Luke, thank you for all your work on this - I know it's been a long journey. All the best, Henrik On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:04 AM Tierney, Luke <luke-tierney at uiowa.edu> wrote: > > R-devel has been switched to use reference counting by default with > r77508. Building with -DSWITCH_TO_NAMED goes back to the NAMED > mechanism. > > Best, > > luke > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, luke-tierney at uiowa.edu wrote: > > > Baring any unforeseen issues R-devel will switch in about a week from > > the NAMED mechanism to reference coun...

Baring any unforeseen issues R-devel will switch in about a week from the NAMED mechanism to reference counting for determining when objects can be safely mutated in base C code. This is expected to have minimal impact on packages not using unsupported coding practices in their C code. The transition to reference counting has been in progress for a number of years. Some older notes on this are

R-devel has been switched to use reference counting by default with r77508. Building with -DSWITCH_TO_NAMED goes back to the NAMED mechanism. Best, luke On Sun, 24 Nov 2019, luke-tierney at uiowa.edu wrote: > Baring any unforeseen issues R-devel will switch in about a week from > the NAMED mechanism to reference counting for determining when objects > can be...