Re: [Vala] Owned, unowned and weak references (Was: [BUG] Re: Closures and local variables)

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 14:51 +0100, Sylvain Leroux wrote:
> As an alternative, instead of using reference counter stored as part of
> the referenced object, one could store the latter in a hashmap.
> "Locating" the reference counter for an object is then only a matter of
> look-up in the map based on the address of the object. This is of course
> not as fast as directly pointing to the counter, but it should be
> reasonably efficient. And that solve the problem of obtaining the
> reference counter of an object based only on its address (like in the
> case of callback parameters). I think I've already saw such
> implementation in frameworks using reference counters (maybe on NextStep
> or Cocoa). Is there a reason for such option being rejected by the Vala
> team?

I guess the fact that Vala is initially GObject-based, which already has
references in-object, is a good one ?

        Xav