[geos-devel] JTS/GEOS performance

[Martin Davis]

I can see how smart pointers can help with program correctness.  Do they
help with performance?  

Martin Davis, Senior Technical Architect
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Vine [mailto:nhv at cape.com] 
> Sent: January 31, 2005 11:31 AM
> To: GEOS Development List
> Subject: RE: [geos-devel] JTS/GEOS performance
> 
> 
> Martin Davis writes:
> > 
> > Hmmm.  This seems fundamentally the wrong approach.  JTS 
> does not need 
> > the flexibility of linked lists inside CoordinateSequences. 
>  It sounds 
> > like you are trying to build a garbage-collected memory management 
> > layer.  This may be the only reasonable solution.  However, rather 
> > than hacking this into the existing code in an obtrusive 
> kind of way, 
> > it would be nicer to look for a clean, layered solution.  Are there 
> > any open source GC packages for C++?
> 
> There are several quality OpenSource C++ Memory Managers but 
> ... This is *exactly* the kind of thing that smart_pointers 
> have made sort of obsolete  :-)
> 
http://boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm

Norman
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