Re: [ALACPP] smart pointers in C

[Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:18, arlo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The key thing here is that the non-intrusive boost shared pointer takes about
> 1.3 times as long to alloc, and 8.5 times as long to copy. There is room for a
> mark-and-sweep gc to do better on copy, but it will not likely touch those
> init times (even amortized). Overall, I expect the type of use to determine
> which is faster. We'll see, if I ever get a compiler set up.
> 
> Honestly, I just want to get the gc pointer to about the same speed as the
> shared_ptr. That one is fast enough for all the projects that I've ever worked
> on.

Ah! It seems like you are intending to still use the standard heap
allocator. That will make it pretty hard for the mark/sweep allocator to
win. Half the fun mark/sweep is having heap allocs that are almost as
fast as stack allocs.

--Chris
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