Re: [boost] request for interest in a garbage collection library

Subject: Re: [boost] request for interest in a garbage collection library
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-20 15:58:24

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On Monday 20 April 2009, Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
> be too much of a burden, and if I wanted to be lazy I could use shared
> pointers to do the reference counting instead of using a GC library with
> equal extra effort.  I don't want to be lazy, and I don't want to debug

A garbage collector does have an advantage over shared_ptr reference counting, 
in that it can automatically detect cycles.  Although, it does seem like it 
should be possible to detect shared_ptr cycles by keeping track of the memory 
regions owned by shared_ptrs and comparing them with the addresses of 
shared_ptr objects.  Then you could build up a graph which could be checked 
for cycles and connectedness.
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