Re: reference counting resources but NOT memory

What you are describing sounds like regular reference counting. All resources (i.e. windows) are pinned somewhere in memory. Its just that you have to use special API's to destroy them rather than free.

reference counting resources but NOT memory

Is there any elegant/smart solution to reference counting resources without ever freeing any objects? When the ref hits 0 it should free some other resource that isn't memory... Resource[10] resources; resources[3].inc; // 1 ref - 0->1 transition enable some feature resources[3].dec; // 0 r