Re: [GD-General] Compile times

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

At 8:19 PM -0600 12/15/02, brian hook wrote:
>  > but now I feel much more comfortable with my 'simple' handles.
>
>I think this is also a big part of my gripe with smart pointers -- much
>like STL, I don't see them solving real world problems.

For the most part that might be true if you're not using exceptions. 
But if you are then it's IMO nearly mandatory to encapsulate the act 
of newing/deleting into a class (like std::auto_ptr) and similarly 
adding/removing references.

Even if you aren't using exceptions manually managing ref counts can 
get pretty hairy with large code bases. (I saw this with InDesign 
which is a huge desktop publishing system which used ref counting 
*very* heavily, but exceptions very little, and didn't add a smart 
pointer class until late in development).

   -- Jesse