Hi Troy, This is an interesting and useful set of classes. I suggest you post an announcement to the ROOT Forum (My ROOT App) at: http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/ Rene Brun "troy d. straszheim" wrote: > > Hi there roottalk-- > > I've prepared a distribution of the "smart pointers" (shared pointers, > specifically) from the boost libraries (http://www.boost.org), that > work with root. These pointers allow one to forget about "delete" as > the pointers maintain reference counts of the objects they point to and > delete, on their own, at the appropriate time. This is a fairly widely > used memory management strategy in larger C++ projects. The ROOST > shared pointer has exactly the same interface (though hybridized > internals) as the standard boost shared pointer, for reasons of > compatibility and consistency. > > Those doing individual analyses, making graphs, running macros and so > forth probably won't have much of a need for such a technique, but > those working on larger architectural issues (how am I going to > integrate root with my framework?) might be quite interested. This > distribution has become possible thanks (*many* thanks) to recent > improvements in root's handling of templates. If other boost-related > techniques are needed in our project and are portable to the root > environment, I'll be adding these to the ROOST distribution in the > future. > > The tarball downloads and builds in the standard gnu way. There are > some tests that demonstrate that objects can go to and come from ROOT > files with reference counting and proper behavior intact. It works on > the mac and on linux. I'm available for quesions, and if you have a > use for the software, please shoot me a mail, let me know it's in use. > Thanks, > > troy d. straszheim > > ROOST: > http://www.resophonic.com/software/ROOST-1.0.tar.gz
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