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in thread threads, refcounting, XS, DESTROY

Unfortunately, it appears that _refcnt() does not always report the expected value during DESTROYction, meaning, IIUC, that final cleanup might be missed using this technique:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ithreads/2007/08/msg1199.html

Looks like it's back to user-defined bookkeeping...

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