Tech/LxEngine/Memory Management

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Overview

Lx classes generally break-down into one of two categories:

• Primitives - lightweight objects generally allocated on the stack or as member variables
• Objects - reference-counted heap objects

Note:

• All non-performance critical objects are reference-counted

Reference Counting

The premise of the LxEngine design is that the simplicity and consistency of reference counting generally outweighs the minor performance increase of custom memory management.