Re: [boost] [Root Pointer] Seeking a Review Manager

Subject: Re: [boost] [Root Pointer] Seeking a Review Manager
From: Phil Bouchard (philippeb8_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-04 09:32:19

On 04/04/2016 04:27 AM, Rob Stewart wrote:
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> That isn't quite an answer to his question. If I understand you correctly, the point of your library is to provide a means to manage groups of related memory allocations using a root_pointer. Each related memory allocation is, I presume, a node_pointer created from, or attached to, one root_pointer. Because node_ptrs are grouped and owned by a root_ptr, they are (can be?) destroyed, as a group, when the corresponding root_ptr is destroyed, regardless of cycles.
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> That doing so suffers no performance loss relative to shared_ptr is a bonus, not a reason.

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> I answered that on one paragraph above, didn't I?

Thanks Rob, that is a much better answer.