Re: Improving use of rt_refcnt

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> The thing is that pretty much all the networks that were "normal" in
> 1980 had disappeared by about 1990, leaving only networks that worked
> like DIX ethernet.  You would think the code would have been
> restructured for the new "normal" since then, but I guess old code
> dies hard.

Well, don't forget that there still are a few non-Ethernetty networks
left.  While it would make sense to optimize for Ethernet and its ilk,
the generality still needs to be kept around.

While this is hardly impossible, I daresay it reduces the motivation to
change the current system.

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