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[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@xxxxx>]

Václav Šmilauer said:     (by the date of Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:38:07 +0100)

> Hi there, any reason PhysicalActionContainer contains shared_ptr's?
> Wouldn't it be better to contain just array of PhysicalActions? It would
> allow for very fast resetting with
> memset(action[0],0,sizeof(thisAction)) and perhaps would save some
> shared_ptr overhead we have currently. V.

the only reason was "we use shared_ptr everywhere, because we're too
stupid to manage memory leaks".

afaik, shared_ptr provides some lock free mechanisms, but I didn't check.

feel free to experiment.

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |