[fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

[Boian Mitov]

The short story is that any approach has issues.
The component container approach has issue of a single ownership with the 
easy loss of pointers.
The ref counting has the danger of circular references.
The GC has the non deterministic behavior (Actually I proposed a 
deterministic/semideterministic GC algorithm ~8 years ago or so, but that is 
a different story).
The point is that even with GC the developer is still required to carefully 
manage resources, and GC tends to make it even more complex.
>From all the the above approaches the ARC with optional Weak pointers is the 
easiest to manage and the one that tends to lead to the least problems IMHO 
.

With best regards,
Boian Mitov

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Gennady Agranov
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 1:54 PM
To: fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Suggestion: reference counted objects

I will address multiple previous e-mails on  this subject :)