Re: Dealloc Notification

[Gerrit Van Dyk]

Helge wrote:

>I have two issues with that:
>a) compatibility (I consider that very critical !!)

I agree with you, but maybe we should start using "incompatibilities"
between GNUstep's components, "Hiding method declarations" etc. as long as
the open interface is compatible.

>BTW: IMHO one shouldn't use NSNotificationCenter for dealloc
>notifications for performance reasons. Eg Apple doesn't do so in EOF
>(for objectWillChange notifications) ! 
>We could (see above) use a queue for the dealloc-observers directly at
>the object.

I agree that NSNotificationCenter should not necessarily be used, but a
system for notifying observers should be. Your queue idea sounds a lot like
the queues they implement in Java for event handling.

Regards
Gerrit van Dyk

 
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