Re: [boost] Shared_ptr "mini garbage collector"

From: Greg Colvin (Gregory.Colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-08 12:55:02

At 10:22 AM 1/8/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>Greg Colvin <Gregory.Colvin_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> At 04:02 PM 1/7/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>>>...
>>>
>>>I can barely think of a reasonable design where GC is a big design win
>>>;-)
>>
>> A Python interpreter?
>
>I obviously have a poor imagination ;-)

More seriously, I've never found GC necessary except
for writing interpreters for garbage collected
languages.  But once GC is there I have found it
very liberating to not worry about memory leaks and
dangling pointers, and not think about ownership
except for non-memory resources.