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Nov 3, 2021

This way of having inner reference types is an expensive operation that requires many calls to malloc/free and a significant reference counting overhead each time you copy.

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Nitin George

I have a test case for struct with inner reference type.

I have a test case for struct with inner reference type. The code and output is in the following gist: https://gist.github.com/vitonzhangtt/a89949daa92641b7ea55d4e2cbaca436 According to the output, I have a conclusion: The assignment operation of struct variables with inner reference type properties will not trigger malloc/free. I would like to hear your opinions about this.

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