On 12/17/11 7:52 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The only reason that I can think of to use a reference-counted struct instead of a class is becuse then it's easier to avoid the GC heap entirely. Almost all of a container's memory is going to end up on the heap regardless, because the elements almost never end up in the container itself.
Being on the heap is not the main issue. The main issue is the data becoming garbage once all references are gone.
They're in a dynamic array or in nodes or something similar. So, whether the container is ref- counted or a class is almost irrelevant.
I think this argument is starting off the wrong premise, and is already wrong by this point, so I skipped the rest. Am I right?
Andrei
