Bryce Miller (Jun 22 2026 at 13:33): Bryce Miller (Jun 22 2026 at 13:33):I see the code generated by glue allows me to create a RocList with or without space for a ref count.
If a list isn’t ref counted, does that mean it will never get dropped?
Context: I have hosted functions that return a List, and Claude reached for the non-ref counted list when asked to implement them.
When I do return an ref counted list, should I be incrementing the ref count before I return it?
Bryce Miller (Jun 22 2026 at 16:18):Ah, I typed this out on my phone when I wasn’t looking at the code. The flag is elements_refcounted, so it’s indicating whether list elements have ref counts that need to be decremented when we decref the list. Is that correct?
Bryce Miller (Jun 22 2026 at 17:04):And the flag exists to signal the correct size of the list header so that it can support seamless slices? I realized that I’ve stumbled into trying to understand ref counting again :sweat_smile:
But if I’m correct in my understanding that I just need elements_refcouted to be true when the elements are heap allocated, that’s all I need for now.
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