Boian Mitov schrieb:
The short story is that any approach has issues.
The component container approach has issue of a single ownership with
the easy loss of pointers.
The ref counting has the danger of circular references.
The GC has the non deterministic behavior (Actually I proposed a
deterministic/semideterministic GC algorithm ~8 years ago or so, but
that is a different story).
I don't like the use of "GC" as a synonym for *mark-sweep* garbage
collection only. Wikipedia also states Reference Counting as just
another form of garbage collection.
The point is that even with GC the developer is still required to
carefully manage resources, and GC tends to make it even more complex.
From all the the above approaches the ARC with optional Weak pointers
is the
easiest to manage and the one that tends to lead to the least problems
IMHO .
ACK - except for Weak references. Weak references turn the conservative
memory management into an aggresive/optimistic one, with unpredictable
consequences.
IMO Weak references should be reserved for users who accept possible
consequential problems, but should never be used in standard libraries.
At least I'd suggest to make weak references subject to an compiler
switch, so that every user has a chance to disable them in case of trouble.
DoDi
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