Re: [boost] Re: Proposals: p2m offsets, prebuild<>, squad_ptr<>(ofcourse)

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-23 13:45:38

From: "David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]>
>
> That looks like it would modify the semantics of shared_ptr, so
> you would have to ask Peter Dimov or one of the other smart_ptr
> authors/gurus about that.  My guess is that the response will be
> along the lines of: "shared_ptr does not have high performance
> as a design goal, and thus such modifications are not desirable".

High performance is always a design goal, but other factors do carry some
weight, too. Were performance the only goal, we'd be using plain pointers.
And never call delete - it's too slow.