[fpc-pascal] Smart Pointers

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 11 May 2016, Sven Barth wrote:

> On 11.05.2016 22:23, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>> Am 11.05.2016 um 14:12 schrieb Maciej Izak:
>>> 2016-05-11 13:46 GMT+02:00 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org <mailto:michael at freepascal.org>>:
>>>
>>>     Anything the compiler needs *must* be in the system unit. The compiler
>>>     should only assume the system unit, possibly objpas or macpas or so.
>>>
>>>     All the rest should remain out of the RTL, which should be as small as
>>>     possible. So rtl-generics is your best bet. Even the classes unit is better
>>>     outside the rtl, but I think Marco is reluctant to remove it.
>>>
>>>     I have remarked on this before: this tight dependency you are creating is very worrying.
>>>
>>>
>>> FPC team is very selective and with double standards and that is very worrying. For example fgl
>>> module is part of RTL
>>
>> Actually, once classes should again use fgl for the TList etc. implementations. This was already
>> done, but reverted again. I do not remember the reason though.
>
> According to the log Michael had reverted it to break the dependency of
> Classes on fgl. Then Micha had again added the code under the
> FPC_TESTGENERICS define... Nothing more was given :/
> Maybe I'll try and see whether the code in that define still works or
> what changes would be needed to get it working and up to state with the
> non-generic one again. :) (at least with 3.0.0 generics would definitely
> be up to the task now :D )

It is not a matter of being up to the task. I'm sure it is possible.

At the time, I did speed tests, and the generics-based code was 10% slower.

That was the clincher, together with "don't fix it if it ain't broken"

Michael.