On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.com> wrote:
Raindog wrote: That is why I think that a real solution to using RAII and GC in C++ must come from the ability to tag objects at the class level, and only occasionally at the object level
I agree with most of what you're saying, I myself am not a fan of GC however I do appreciate its benefits in some cases, when all of the resources being managed allow non-deterministic termination (memory being the most important such resource.) Yet, occasionally even memory needs to be managed deterministically. So I disagree with your assertion that classes should be tagged for GC, and not individual object instances. One of the best features of shared_ptr is the fact that it abstracts resource management at object instance level. I know this is wishful thinking, but the ideal solution as far as I'm concerned would be to implement GC as a custom (non-deterministic) allocation strategy, per-instance, as a custom shared_ptr allocator. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode