On 2011-03-30 10:52, Ishan Thilina wrote: > >The main thing was that all of the containers would become classes rather > >than structs which used reference counting. RedBlackTree has already been > >changed (in git), but the others haven't been yet. > > Hi, I'm the one who is interested in the GSoC project "Containers". Should > the containers that I ( or anyone who gets eligible to do the project ) > implement be based on structs or classes?
They should all be final classes. It was already the design that all container types should have reference semantics, but Andrei tried to implement them initially as structs with reference semantics using ref counting, and that ran into problems, so it was decided to just make them all final classes. That way, inlining is still possible (thanks to final), and they're quite clearly reference types. - Jonathan M Davis
