what's the point of rpython?

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    Carl> I just looked at the boost documentation, which claims that
    Carl> multiple asynchronous writes to the same shared_ptr results in
    Carl> undefined behavior.  That will not suffice for Python reference
    Carl> counting.

Carl, I'm quite unfamiliar with Boost and am not a C++ person, so may have
read what you saw but not recognized it in the C++ punctuation soup.  I
couldn't find what you referred to.  Can you provide a URL?

Thanks,

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