* Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, > > 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. Okay, it might block a little time when the GC runs, but as it's a menu-driven application, this won't matter much, IMHO. > Object lifetimes are no longer deterministic, and destructors will not > be called. This can be a significant issue. Yes, for examples having to close fd's before unmounting filesystems. But these places are quite few, already identified and mostly encapsulated, so I can easily add an direct close (independent of object lifetimes) instead of the delete operations. > 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. That's not the case in my app. Purely C++, plus some additional libraries which I could review quite easily. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@xxxxxxxx mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
