On 5-Jan-07, at 5:56 PM, Stefan wrote:
Am 05.01.2007 um 23:43 schrieb Daniel Stenning:
Seem to remember someone mentioning that monkeybread supporting weak
references in their plugin collection, not ideal I know, so I'll
sign on to
that F.R in any case.
Some time ago, we had a lengthy discussion regarding this.
I personally had a problem based on cyclic object graphs. As far as
I remember, RS explained, that cyclic object graphs can always be
rewritten to acyclic graphs. Furthermore, I remember that someone of
RS explained, that cyclic graphs are often a sign of bad design [which
I can't confirm].
I don't know - cyclic references are really useful for tree
structures where you need to traverse the tree backwards. E.g. in my
3D scene graph nodes can contain child nodes, and each node's
transformations (position/orientation/scale) affect its children. The
renderer traverses the tree from the root so children needn't know
about their parents in that case. However, nodes must have knowledge
about their parents to glean data such as their absolute world
coordinates. I could traverse the whole tree from the root until I
find the node I'm interested in but that's a huge waste of time -
it's far easier and faster to traverse the tree backwards until you
hit the root.
So for right now I use cyclic refs and require nodes to be disposed
of implicitly, giving them a chance tell their children to trash the
parent ref. To ensure I haven't missed any I check the Runtime module
for dangling nodes in the App.Close event. This works OK, but is
quite the PITA, so if anyone's got a reasonable acyclic solution I'm
all ears...
Thus, I really wonder, if RS would implement this feature request.
Well I hope they seriously consider it - the scene graph aside, my
current file caching scheme is a complicated mess that would be
greatly simplified and require far less code with weak refs...
Frank.
<http://developer.chaoticbox.com/>
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