On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:20:59 +0200 (CEST) Robert Vazan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RV> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:31:02 -0400 David Abrahams RV> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RV> RV> > I probably should keep smart-aleck questions to myself, but I have to RV> > ask why you're writing your own smart pointers at all? Boost's RV> > shared_ptr is pretty damned amazing; all of these little safety issues RV> > and design details have been taken care of, and it has an almost RV> > astounding ability to handle all kinds of interoperability RV> > issues... and of course we have scoped_ptr as well. RV> RV> Because Vadim has something against compatibility with VC6 I have something _for_ compatibility with it, not against it :-) But I think that boost::shared_ptr<> does with with VC6 and I would be surprized if scoped_ptr<> didn't. RV> and I have something against performance, compatibility with bare RV> pointers (we have two-way conversion while boost insists that all RV> pointers are converted to shared_ptr after operator new and then only RV> used), and inlining (I do care about binary size). I don't think anything of the above is a big problem. I think that I would have used boost classes but as you're working on this I prefer leaving the choice to you. RV> BTW, we are rewriting boost::intrusive_ptr, not shared_ptr. shared_ptr<> may be used for intrusive ref counting too. RV> We will probably never optimize anything, but boost doesn't optimize RV> either. I still don't know what is there to optimize and, to be honest, I'd be surprized if we could beat the boost version... RV> > Naturally, I can't imagine writing an application of the scale of RV> > Mahogany without simply adopting Boost as a standard piece of the RV> > infrastructure. There are just so many things that work better, RV> > faster, smarter when you take advantage of carefully designed RV> > libraries. RV> RV> It isn't that well designed. It's not optimized at all. I wouldn't say this but I think that if we really want to discuss it, boost mailing list could be a better place to do it. RV> It relies on compilers that don't exist. Looking at the test matrix at boost.org, VC6 does support these classes... Regards, VZ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
