Re: [boost] library proposal: garbage collection

From: Dave Harris (brangdon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-11 03:47:08

In-Reply-To: <dpsep6$t6q$1_at_[hidden]>
axilmar_at_[hidden] (Achilleas Margaritis) wrote (abridged):
> the following proposal is about a small library for multithreaded 
> garbage collection using only boost threads.

Am I right in thinking your approach does not allow pointers to objects to 
be embedded into other objects? They have to be on the stack?

If so, I imagine that would be a fairly severe limitation. It prevents you 
from having circular chains of pointers, support for which is usually one 
of the reasons for adopting GC.

-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.