Faster Virtual Method Dispatch

[James Dunne]

Walter Bright wrote:
> James Dunne wrote:
> 
>> Your example is having two trees _point_ to data within each other.  
>> The original data is still _owned_ by the original tree which the data 
>> resides in.  You wouldn't be swapping ownership of the data like 
>> you're talking about.  In this system, when memory is allocated it is 
>> assigned an owner and that ownership does not ever change.  So the 
>> system resembles a tree (one parent only), not a directed graph.
> 
> 
> But when this happens in the general case, I can't delete *any* of the 
> trees.

When are you trying to delete one of these trees?

To which 'tree' are you referring, the data structure tree or the 
hierarchical memory manager's tree?

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Regards,
James Dunne