[Bug 642967] [performance] Create variants of _ref/_unref for buffers

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642967
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | git

--- Comment #6 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> 2011-04-24 10:59:23 UTC ---
> If you care about performance you turn those checks off
> (--enable-gobject-cast-checks=no) anyway, right? Not sure if its worth to speed
> it up that way.

We do care about performance on the desktop as well, but also want to keep
those checks in place, which are extremely helpful for debugging purposes.

I think these changes are very much worth it: they're dead simple and should
result in performance improvements. I can't see any major downsides.

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