Larry Evans wrote:
On 06/02/2005 12:01 PM, Tobias Schwinger wrote:
Anything in the pipeline (perhaps further development of Boost.Pool) ? Any others interested in this ? Am I missing something ? Volunteers ?
I'm wondering why the customizable memory management described here:
ftp://ftp.di.unipi.it/pub/project/posso/cmm/
couldn't be adapted to boost.
Nice! Thanks for the link. However, the paper very much focusses on the aspect of garbage collection, which is not exactly what I was talking about and seems a bit out-dated in regard to the design discussion. The code is released under an aggressive open source license.
It allows separate heaps for different memory management schemes. It also allows precise collection if one takes the trouble to create a pointer map for each class.
Explicit lifetime management (manual or "smart") should be enough in most cases... A lame excuse because I find non-deterministic algorithms scary, perhaps ;-).
However, creating such a map for any field, not just smart pointer fields, is the purpose of:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/boost/fiel...
so I don't see that as a big problem.
IIRC, I have looked at this code before. A brief example (maybe in form of a @code block) would be a great. Regards, Tobias