Re: [boost] Preliminary Review Request: boost-memory

From: shiwei xu (xushiweizh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-06 21:33:59

Sorry, I forgot to give some links.

To gain the source code, you can:

   1. Download from Boost
Vault<http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost-memory-0.1.00.zip&directory=Memory&>or
   http://code.google.com/p/stdext/downloads/list.
   2. Svn checkout
   http://winx.googlecode.com/svn/tags/boost-memory-0.1.00/.
   3. Svn checkout http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/memory/.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:29 AM, shiwei xu <xushiweizh_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> What is new?
>
> 1. Lock-free free list.
> 2. Provide both region allocators (boost::auto_alloc, boost::scoped_alloc)
> and general-purpose allocators (boost::gc_alloc<http://cpp.winxgui.com/boost-gc-alloc>
> ).
>
> Highlights:
>
> 1. Allocating memory is very fast.
> 2. No memory leaks. No need to delete objects manually. Or forgetting to
> delete objects is allowed.
>
> ---
>
> What is boost-memory?
>
> It provides allocators named "GC Allocator". Note "GC Allocator" isn't GC.
>
> GC Allocator is different from STL Allocator. The following is minimum
> specification for GC Allocator:
>
> typedef void (*DestructorType)(void* data);
>
> concept GCAllocator
> {
>     // Allocate memory without given a cleanup function
>     void* allocate(size_t cb);
>
>     // Allocate memory with a cleanup function
>     void* allocate(size_t cb, DestructorType fn);
>
>     // Cleanup and deallocate all allocated memory by this GC Allocator
>     void clear();
>
>     // Swap two GCAllocator instances
>     void swap(GCAllocator& o);
> };
>
> For more information about GC Allocator, refer to
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/gc-allocator.aspx
>
>