That's good news indeed. I'm a fan of these Qt pointer classes. Philippe
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:27:57 +0200 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > On quarta-feira, 20 de junho de 2012 06.42.52, Philippe wrote: > > In Qt 5 in git, I have seen changes to this implementation. Mainly, in > > Qt 4.8, it was stated that "QWeakPointer serves as a replacement to > > QPointer". This is no longer the case and this is mentionned as > > deprecated (qsharedpointer.cpp). > > > > QWeakPointer was quoted in 4.8 as "more efficient than QPointer, so it > > should be preferred in all new code.". > > > > I use it a lot without trouble. So I would like to know why this (apparent) > > regression? > > > > Question for Thiago I guess... > > Yes, I need to blog about this (I have a draft actually). > > In Qt5, QPointer and QWeakPointer are equally efficient. However, we've split > the usages: > > - QPointer when you want to use to track QObjects, just like original Qt 4.0 > - QWeakPointer when you want to track a QSharedPointer > > The QWeakPointer constructor that takes a QObject is deprecated. > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > Intel Sweden AB - Registration Number: 556189-6027 > Knarrarnäsgatan 15, 164 40 Kista, Stockholm, Sweden _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
