Re: Issue 5732: Use unique_ptr in layout code (issue 573500043 by address@hidden)

[jonas . hahnfeld]

On 2020/02/03 18:01:09, dak wrote:
> Stupid question: unique_ptr has the purpose of deallocating memory
when the last
> reference is gone.  But we have an entire Scheme allocation system
exactly for
> that purpose for which we are already paying the price in overhead. 
Any chance
> this can be usefully tracked in the SCM scheme of things?

Why would we want to use GC more than needed? Any marking algorithm will
always be slower than a local variable going out of scope.

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