On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:31:02 -0400 David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I probably should keep smart-aleck questions to myself, but I have to > ask why you're writing your own smart pointers at all? Boost's > shared_ptr is pretty damned amazing; all of these little safety issues > and design details have been taken care of, and it has an almost > astounding ability to handle all kinds of interoperability > issues... and of course we have scoped_ptr as well. Because Vadim has something against compatibility with VC6 and I have something against performance, compatibility with bare pointers (we have two-way conversion while boost insists that all pointers are converted to shared_ptr after operator new and then only used), and inlining (I do care about binary size). BTW, we are rewriting boost::intrusive_ptr, not shared_ptr. We will also have equivalent of weak_ptr, but specifically built for intrusive reference counting. We will probably never optimize anything, but boost doesn't optimize either. > Naturally, I can't imagine writing an application of the scale of > Mahogany without simply adopting Boost as a standard piece of the > infrastructure. There are just so many things that work better, > faster, smarter when you take advantage of carefully designed > libraries. It isn't that well designed. It's not optimized at all. It relies on compilers that don't exist. And, after all, it has strictier license than our own code. Of course, I am not happy about this situation. After spending several hours on it, I really hate this weak pointer business (but then it included conversion of legacy code). But to utilize external solution, we would need bug-free and optimizing compilers and availability of the library in public domain or under non-Gpl opensource license. wxWindows is enough to drain bug-fixing time and c-client is enough to limit our distribution. Both are more important than Boost. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
