[webkit-dev] std::shared_ptr?

[Ryosuke Niwa]

I don't think we can afford to use shared_ptr.  As far as I know, it
allocates a new memory space for each object to be shared.  Doing that for
every DOM node will probably be prohibitively expensive.


- R. Niwa


On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Brendan Long <self at brendanlong.com> wrote:

> On 10/25/2013 06:38 PM, Darin Adler wrote:
> > We are replacing PassOwnPtr and OwnPtr with std::unique_ptr. This is
> > part of a general trend where we are adopting some C++11 language and
> > library features.
> Is there any plan to replace RefPtr with std::shared_ptr too, or is
> there some reason why that would be a bad idea?
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