For those who care, a revised version of RunVector can be found at http://home.cinci.rr.com/dancers/code/ Is this the sort of thing that would belong in boost?...
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John Maddock
John_Maddock@...
Mar 2, 2000 12:24 pm
Steve, ... Aha! someone else who can't resist a challenge :-) I've only looked *quickly* at your alignment code, however I don't think that it quite guarentees...
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Stephen Cleary
scleary@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:56 pm
... think ... code ... be ... figured ... My code required alignment on a multiple of sizeof(char *); however, it would still break if other alignments are not...
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Braden N. McDaniel
braden@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:33 pm
... Okay, I see what you're saying. However, I'd expect persons with such a setup to be rather familiar with the steps involved in juggling between two (or...
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Paul Jensen
pdjensen@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:05 am
... I've been trying to find a reasonable safe-pointer representation to hold the ownership of a class data member - ie, replace class C { TYP *t; ... }; with ...
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Beman Dawes
beman@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:37 am
... My initial reaction is that the range of applications for RunVector is a bit too narrow to attract a lot of interest from boost members. On the other hand,...
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Dave Abrahams
abrahams@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:11 am
... 1. garbage collector 2. Saves on space overhead for dynamic allocation (size labels, internal fragmentation) 3. Should be faster than almost any...
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Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:01 pm
... The above highlights a need for boost::shared_ptr<> to co-exist with other smart pointer implementations. The current 'policy' for boost::shared_ptr<>...
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Reid Sweatman
borderland@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:04 pm
Hope this isn't off-target, but have you considered instances where the programmer might want to specify data alignments that don't correspond to any native...
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Borgerding, Mark A.
MarkAB@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:05 pm
I'm not sure I understand why shared_ptr alone is not sufficient for your purposes. auto_ptr and shared_ptr are different animals altogether. The auto_ptr ...
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Jens Maurer
jmaurer@...
Mar 3, 2000 3:11 pm
While trying to improve the random number library, especially the various non-uniform distribution functions, I decided that I needed a tool to analyze the...
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Miki Jovanovic
miki@...
Mar 3, 2000 3:26 pm
... implementations. ... This has ... into ... operation in ... not). ... (e.g. ... smart ... Hi Gavin, While I am curious if anyone comes up with a suitable...
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Borgerding, Mark A.
MarkAB@...
Mar 3, 2000 4:52 pm
I put an updated linked_ptr.hpp in the vault under smart_pointers. http://www.egroups.com/docvault/boost/smart_pointers Changes: added linked_array put...
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Stephen Cleary
scleary@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:03 pm
... the ... correspond to ... possible to ... when ... assembler, ... alignment ... default to ... The scheme we have will work for the alignment requirements...
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Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:05 pm
... I think which ever way it is defined, release() would need to have warning labels attached. As you point out, it's an unpleasant choice between ...
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Stephen Cleary
scleary@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:20 pm
... collector? ... internal ... OK. Yes, pool should do all these. It uses the obvious fixed-size allocation algorithm that you find in *any* embedded OS,...
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Miki Jovanovic
miki@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:22 pm
... do so means ... more ... him take the ... itself as ... Hi Gavin, It is me again. If I was not clear in my first example, I will use yours. In both of your...
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Stephen Cleary
scleary@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:30 pm
Say, I think I figured out how to fix the inefficiencies in pool! pool, as it stands right now, has a list of storage units. The problem is that each of these...
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Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Mar 3, 2000 6:26 pm
... was ... Hi Miki, I think we're at cross purposes regarding the semantics of release(). Assuming that we're not talking about the one which is restricted to...
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Miki Jovanovic
miki@...
Mar 3, 2000 7:11 pm
... whole, ... at ... Hi Gavin, OK, I understand now where you are going with this. And I agree. If we can agree to have a #define which includes/excludes...
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Miki Jovanovic
miki@...
Mar 3, 2000 8:00 pm
Hi Mark, Smart pointers in my apps are not copied many times, so I am really interested in your linked pointers. I just have couple of small issues with...
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Borgerding, Mark A.
MarkAB@...
Mar 3, 2000 9:20 pm
... Unfortunately, there are not many platform independent synchronization packages. I have tried to hide any platform specific code behind appropriate...
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Jens Maurer
jmaurer@...
Mar 3, 2000 9:26 pm
... Yes, and this is good. ... We already have boost::scoped_ptr and of course std::auto_ptr which implement different ownership semantics. ... Yes. ... No. ...
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Borgerding, Mark A.
MarkAB@...
Mar 3, 2000 9:52 pm
... I though of several approaches to release(). Approach #1) Notify everybody. In this approach, every linked_ptr to a given heap object would be nullified....
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Miki Jovanovic
miki@...
Mar 3, 2000 10:01 pm
... you ... = ... above ... end up ... synchronization ... thing as ... Check this execution path... thread1 thread2 ... ptr1 = ptr2 if ptr...
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Borgerding, Mark A.
MarkAB@...
Mar 3, 2000 10:46 pm
... [snip] ... Not to make light of the problem, but that still falls into the catch-all category of undefined behavior. I wanted to make linked_ptr safe to...
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Paul Jensen
pdjensen@...
Mar 3, 2000 11:16 pm
As I drove away after hurrying to finish my previous correspondence, I realized that if I could convert one share of a jointly owned object into full...
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Reid Sweatman
borderland@...
Mar 4, 2000 7:50 am
Yeah, makes sense. The only reason I suggested it is that it would make things somewhat more self-documenting....
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Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Mar 4, 2000 9:53 am
... as closed as ... be used. ... The problem with answering yes to this question is that despite all good intentions to use best practice, situations...
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Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Mar 4, 2000 9:56 am
Looks like a well implemented worthwhile addition to me. I've often used a similar technique without formalizing it. One question though, have you considered...
