As part of my daily reverse engineering and peering into Windows Internals, I started noticing a strange effect in Windows 8.1 whenever looking at the reference counts of various objects with tools such as WinDBG, Process Explorer, and Process Hacker: seemingly gigantic values on x64 Windows, and smaller, yet still incredibly large values on x86
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