[Development] Qt 5.9's new garbage collector documentation? + root_ptr

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Jul 5 08:29:04 CEST 2017


On Tuesday, 4 July 2017 21:03:14 PDT Phil Bouchard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read Qt 5.9 is using a new garbage collector that is more predictable.
>   First good job and second I was wondering if there is any
> documentation on that garbage collector in question.

That might be in the QML engine VM. The rest of Qt does not use garbage 
collectors.

> I guess if there is any interests to make the garbage collector
> perfectly deterministic then root_ptr could be relatively easily
> integrated at this stage.

How does root_ptr work with JavaScript semantics?

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