* Enrico Weigelt: > My idea is to add some mark+sweep gc (boem-gc ?) and remove (or > somehow disable) all delete operations. Does that work safely, > or do I have to cope with certain nasty side effects ? Performance might change. Object lifetimes are no longer deterministic, and destructors will not be called. This can be a significant issue. There are a few cases when the Boehm-Dehmers-Weiser collector won't work, for instance if you have got custom memory allocators or use some pointer encoding schemes.