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

Subject: Re: [boost] request for interest in a garbage collection library
From: joaquin_at_[hidden]
Date: 2009-04-21 10:13:56

Gregory Peele ARA/CFD escribió:
> In favor of garbage collection in general, though - for some use cases, especially those that don't use non-memory resources, it makes a lot of sense.  The Boehm guys claim that garbage collection can be a significant performance win for workloads involving large numbers of small objects, as compared to C++ new / delete - especially in multithreaded environments. 

AFAICS, you can have an implementation of delete where "delete p" simply 
calls
the destructor of the object pointed to by p and then passes p to an 
internal
garbage collector that will reclaim the memory in due time. This way you 
have
determinstic resource liberation *and* GC speed.

My point behind this is: you can have memory management as fast as any
GC can achieve and still retain RAII style. No need to force users to 
resort to GC for
performance's sake.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo