[fpc-devel] What's the status of Maciej's Smart Pointer enhancements?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon Apr 30 21:30:03 CEST 2018



On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Maciej Izak wrote:

>> I can imagine that checking such a field will be more fast than actually
>> calling a routine. This is just a thought, if you had already considered
>> such a thing, I would like to hear why you discarded it, for my education.
>
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> this is exactly what is done in FastRTTI

Yes, I imagined this answer. Allow me to ask further questions:

You are adding - please correct me if I am wrong - a complete new table
to the binary, for every class. What does this table contain if no
management operators are used ?

Michael.



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