Began moving to an explicit epoch-based system

I started moving over to an explicit Epoch based system, which has
necessitated a ton of changes throughout the code base. This will
ultimately allow for a much cleaner set of abstractions for managing
concurrency.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/framework/structure/MutableBuffer.h b/include/framework/structure/MutableBuffer.h
index 4e0b5c2..974dc28 100644
--- a/include/framework/structure/MutableBuffer.h
+++ b/include/framework/structure/MutableBuffer.h
@@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ public:
         return true;
     }
 
+    size_t get_reference_count() {
+        return m_refcnt.load();
+    }
+
     bool active_merge() {
         return m_merging.load();
     }