Re: [boost] request for interest in a garbage collection library

on Mon Apr 13 2009, Achilleas Margaritis <axilmar-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

I would appreciate it if people could take a look and share their opinions on it.

I haven't looked at it, but IMO the biggest obstacle to effective GC for C++ isn't the lack of a library (Boehm's collector is pretty good AFAIK). It's the lack of a programming model that integrates destructors and peoples' legitimate expectations that they will be called to release non-memory resxources. What can you say about the non-memory resources owned by a GC'd object that contains, say, a mutex? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com