"Greg Colvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 09:23 AM 1/7/2003, Peter Dimov wrote: > >From: "William E. Kempf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...] > A smart pointer approach is the only way I know to write a > portable collector, but it is not really the best way to > write a high-performance collector. My preference is to > have a special new(gc) allocator for collectable objects, > and compiler support for a collector that can scan all > objects for pointers to collectable objects. If new(gc) > is never called there need be no overhead. This was the main idea behind new (gc), new (rc) and new (os) of placed_ptr. Is now using a compile-time trait (defaults to gc): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/placed_ptr/ Philippe A. Bouchard _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
