[Interest] Qt based LRU container?

[André Pönitz]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:35:39PM +0200, Mark wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Richard Moore <rich at kde.org> wrote:
> > On 19 October 2013 18:43, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Does anyone know of an LRU based container for Qt? I'm specifically
> >> looking for an implementation that notifies me when something gets
> >> removed due to LRU kicking in. QCache would be nearly OK for my needs,
> >> but it doesn't notify me when something drops out due to LRU kicking
> >> in.
> >
> > If you need to know when something is evicted then it's not really
> > acting as just a cache. That said, you could do it by making the
> > object in the cache inform you in its destructor.
> >
> > Rich.
> 
> hmm, that could work. Never thought about using the destructor.
> On the other hand, i would get into trouble when the object isn't only
> in the cache but also in other places. Then a destruction signal might
> not necessarily mean that it's removed from the cache.

You could keep a flag in the object that's only set when you
want that behaviour, i.e. which is set when you insert it into
your "cache".

Andre'