Automatic Garbage Collection

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 30/1/07 12:37 PM, "Philip Mötteli" <philip.moetteli at econophone.ch> wrote:

Hi Philip,

>>> Is there any decision underway, if VSDK will become GC-enabled?
>> 
>> * do you talk now about Valentina for Cocoa? V4CC.framework?
> 
> No.
> 
> 
>> * IF you talk about C++ SDK then note it is not a framework but set of
>> dylibs. So then it sounds on THIS LEVEL no need for Apple's GC.
> 
> I don't think there's much of a difference. I'm afraid, but a
> framework is just a library wrapped together with its resources.
> Apart from that, the GC seems to apply not only to objects, but also
> to pointers. And that is what you basically use in a C++SDK, too.

I do not believe that EACH library now must be forced to be re-written with
GC. Right ? 

Valentina Engine have own smart pointers system.
We NOT GOING and NEVER will use anything from Apple,
At least because we need to have cross-platform code.

>> * should we only set some compiler switch or we need redesign code ?
> 
> Probably only a compiler switch.
> Here's the documentation:

If this is only a compiler switch to satisfy LINKER, then I do not see
problems.

>> * should we have provide 2 versions of framework or
>>     GC-version should become single choice?
> 
> I think, that the future is definetely GC. But this will take (a
> long) time.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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