In a message dated 6/11/2005 12:03:50 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Robin,
> There a number of issues involved with
considering moving to
>try/throw/catch error handling. The first
one that comes to mind is
>language binding. Second is
cross-platform portability with OSs like
>PocketPC, which, if I
remember correctly don't have compilers that
>support exceptions or
RTTI. I'm not in a mental state to debate the
>merits of either
system for a few months, but we have a long running
>list of
improvements to the engine. If it is something you have a
>practicle reason for desiring, please open a new feature request and
>include justification and we'll not forget to address the issue
>(actually this goes out to anyone who wishes to switch error handling
>models).
>
> -Troy.
>
>PS.
I think we've done a pretty solid job to keep memory usage down to
>a
minimum. I'm not sure that any of our apps are running out of memory
>doing anything these days. We run on some small platforms, like
PDAs
>with as little as a total of 16MB of RAM. The optimizations
to make us
>work in these environments have left us with a fairly lean
memory
>footprint, even on larger systems. Most of our objects
which allocate
>and cache resources implement an SWCacher interface
with
>resourceConsumption and lastAccess reporting, and a flush method
to ask
>them to clean up. We where planning on writing a CacheMgr
which all
>these SWCacher object could be handed to, that would monitor
these
>objects and keep total resourceConsumption within a reasonable
>tolerance, but haven't done so yet. That was a long
PS.
It's just a wish list item for me at this point. I'll let someone
with more knowledge of all
the issues/consequences write up the "improvement/new feature docs.
Go have a vacation:) or whatever. (Like DM or Barry)
In His Grace,
Robin
Phone:
650-948-8037
Fax: 650-948-9337
Cell: 650-518-0025
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