Re: [KOS] Tsunami virtual refcnt'ing

[Jim U. <ji...@3e...>]

At 09:59pm on 2004 March 11, Dan Potter did write:
> I've run into a bit of a quandary when integrating Lua to my C++ code (and
> this will probably be true of integrating almost any scripting language, to
> some degree). Basically I'd like to be able to provide alternate refcnt'ing
> semantics to some types of objects. The most straightforward way to do this
> would be to make ref() and unref() virtual methods.

I doubt you'd see any noticable performance impact from virtual
functions unless you're calling them in a time-critical section.
Memory, maybe.  Won't most calls to unref() result in an 
expensive delete, outweighing the virtual lookup anyway?

Anyway your Tsunami usage is surely more complicated than anyone else's,
so if it works for you...


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