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Re: object memory management [message #63609 is a reply to message #63523]

Wed, 12 November 2008 21:18

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Nov 12, 12:31 pm, Demitri wrote:
>
> Is this something that should be published in my class' API and the
> responsibility is passed to anyone using the function? It seems that
> calling OBJ_DESTROY will also destroy the objects within the container,
> and I may not want that. Should I ignore it and call HEAP_GC
> occasionally (*cough*hack!*cough*)? What is the IDL convention here?

This is exactly the same problem as, "who frees a pointer?" In a low
level language like C, this question makes sense to ask. But for a
high level language like IDL (or Python or Perl etc.), the
*interpreter* does the job for us. Why should we have to figure out
when an object or a pointer needs to be freed when the interpreter
knows *exactly* when? [ for example it can do its own reference
counting. ] Just think if we had to explicitly allocate and free
every variable. In my opinion, it's an area where RSI really dropped
the ball, and makes pointers/objects a lot less effective than they
could be.

Craig

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		object memory management By: Anonymous on Wed, 12 November 2008 09:31
		Re: object memory management By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 13 November 2008 19:29
		Re: object memory management By: David Fanning on Thu, 13 November 2008 11:03
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		Re: object memory management By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 12 November 2008 21:18
		Re: object memory management By: Anonymous on Wed, 12 November 2008 14:50
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