Hi Marcus,
Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>
>> Hm, I will have to defer the actual answer to Gerrit. I'll just keep
>> this situation in mind for the CPtr part, and it's definitely a problem
>> with boost::shared_ptr (which doesn't support this operation either).
>
> My 0.02€: Boost::shared_ptr has a number of drawbacks because it
> supports non-intrusive refcount, which is required in may occations but
> for frameworks like OpenSG (and my app) it's IMO mostly a hassle. We're
> using intrusive_ptr and a very simple RefObject base class to handle
> this for our own classes.
But...
> (However, the weak_ptr support of boost::shared_ptr is nice and more
> easily supported with external refcounting)
Yup. So my current thinking is that I'll have to write a
boost::intrusive_shared_ptr/intrusive_weak_ptr to get the best of both worlds,
as I really can't see how to guarantee that you never need to go shared to *. :(
Dirk
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