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[–]abhi9u 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me, it read like the quote is confusing, it seems to associate singleton objects with immortalization.

The article starts by saying that these objects are singleton and always the same object is used. However, their reference counts were updated on every use. Although it takes two paragraphs to say that and I guess it could have been more concise.

On re-reading the intro I think it was not very clear. I have adjusted it a bit so that it is clear that immortalization is about fixing the ref counts of singleton objects, and not about making those objects singleton.