Re: [boost] [Memory Managed Pointer] Review Request

Subject: Re: [boost] [Memory Managed Pointer] Review Request
From: Phil Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-26 03:57:15

On 4/25/2011 11:45 PM, Rutger ter Borg wrote:
>
> If I understood correctly, it's a pointer that
>
> 1) counts references from the stack or data segment only
> 2) auto-unites different "sets"
>
> So maybe something along the line of "heap_set_ptr" covers its
> functionality. I'm curious about the union behaviour: couldn't this be
> causing a huge delay for deallocation? Can it be turned off?

Thanks for the suggestions everybody but I'm now considering: 
mutual_ptr, which tells what it's made for.  The "set" qualifier should 
be hidden from the user because it'll make the code cleaner.

-Phil