Re: Which is best way to store objects?
On Jan 3, 3:41 pm, Jeff Flinn <TriumphSprint2...@hotmail.com> wrote:
James Kanze wrote:
On Jan 2, 10:45 pm, "Leigh Johnston" <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:
Which makes one ask questions. Since pointers (raw or
otherwise) have different semantics than using the objects
themselves. You simply can't replace one with the other.
If you wanted a container of polymorphic objects (i.e.
std::vector<base*>) then shared_ptr is ideal.
That's very debatable. Most polymorphic objects are entity
objects, for which the semantics of shared_ptr are not
appropriate.
Why not? Can you expound on that statement.
The obvious answer is, because it doesn't have the desired
semantics. What are the semantics of shared_ptr? What are you
using your pointers for?
At least in the applications I've seen, most pointers are for
navigation, and most dynamic objects have deterministic
lifetimes. Boost::shared_ptr does not have the semantics of a
pointer used for navigation, and it prevents proper
deterministic lifetime.
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