Hi,

I wish to register my math classes with Angelscript and use reference counting to manage the memory.  However, the problem I have with this is the need to add an integer to the class to keep track of the number of references to the object used (addref/release methods).  The reason for this is that my math classes work with OpenGL, so when I pass an array (pointer) of matrices or vectors, they will work directly with opengl shader programs.  Adding an integer would break this and was wondering if there's a way to solve this problem without using external reference counters which would need a lookup and slow the whole thing down.  I'm hoping somebody can help me overcome this problem.

Thanks.

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I just felt it was easier to share the math classes and pass objects to and from the scripts as pointers, whilst storing some of them in the scripts.  The problem I was having is the added 4 bytes from the counter.

Considering the openGL function takes a float pointer and that I would normally do the selection to build this array of data in the rendering loop, I decided I could probably just use a Union.  Something like this:

union
{
	struct
	{
		float x, y, z;
	};

	struct
	{
		float array[3];
	};
};

I can then just use obj.array and push that into a float array to then pass to openGL.  I'll look into some of your suggestions (I've only had a few days with AS).