Lance Bachmeier kirjoitti 13.6.2024 klo 1.32:
Why would it be different from calling malloc and free manually? I guess I'm not understanding, because you put the same calls to malloc and free that you'd otherwise be doing inside this and ~this.
Because with `SafeRefCounted`, you have to decide the size of your allocations at compile time, meaning you need to do a varying number of `malloc`s and `free`s to vary the size of your allocation at runtime. Even if you were to use templates to vary the type of `SafeRefCounted` object based on size of your allocation, the spec puts an upper bound of 16MiB to size of a static array.
So for example, if you have a program that sometimes needs 600Mib and sometimes needs 1100MiB, you can in any case allocate all that in one go with one `malloc` or one `new`, but you'll need at least 38/59 `SafeRefCounted` static arrays, and therefore `malloc`s, to accomplish the same.
