Re: [GD-General] Compile times

[Josiah M. <jm...@ma...>]

Maybe I am totally off base here, but it seems to me that if you really want
to prevent fragmentation, for example in a server that has a really long up
time, the best thing to do would be to use smart pointers of some sort.

By not having your pointers directly point to a memory location, this allows
you to change what the pointer points to. It seems to me that having this
additional abstraction would allow you to periodically defragment memory,
and the programmer wouldn't have to worry about the details at all. It just
works.

This is essentially what happens with your file system on the hard drive.
There is no easy way to know where exactly a file is on disk, and it could
change any time with no one being the wiser.

Josiah Manson