Re: [GD-General] Compile times

[Jesse J. <jes...@mi...>]

At 3:12 AM +0100 12/16/02, Ignacio Casta=F1o wrote:
>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.

I have some thoughts on how this can be done, but I'd like to hear 
some more details on how you've implemented this. :-)

   -- Jesse