Re: [GD-General] Compile times

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Jesse Jones wrote:
> Hmm, I've seen smart pointers used on several projects and they have
> never caused any problems. What sort of "ugly things" are you
> referring to?

I've seen ugly things when used wrong. For example, when using ciclyc
references. I allowed weak references to avoid cycles, but ended using them
in places where I shoudn't and the end I had the feeling of not having too
much control over the life of the objects. They definitely increase
complexity, at least when you have never used them :-)

After that, I switched to a handle based resource manager, much more robust
than the previous code. You have total control over the life of the objects
and if you mix the handle with a reference count, you detect invalid
references inmediatly.

Of course, if I used smart pointers again, I wouldn't make the same errors,
but now I feel much more comfortable with my 'simple' handles.


Ignacio Castaño
cas...@ya...


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