Turing Memory Manager

[ericfourfour]

This is a memory manager. To use it you create a pointer object (aka smart pointers) and give the pointer the object it will be pointing to. (This is very hard to explain considering most of Turing's audience will never go this far with Turing). Once you are done with the pointer you can free it and if the object has nothing pointing to it, it will go to the deadObjects list. If you want to get rid of all of the unused objects you call the garbage collector. If you want to get rid of every objects you unload the ObjectManager.

This is based off what was done here.

Some commands you should know for using this.

Create an object.

code:

fcn New.object () : ^Object

Create a smart pointer.

code:

fcn New.ptr (object : ^Object) : ^Pointer

Delete a smart pointer.

code:

proc Delete.ptr (p : ^Pointer)

Garbage collection.

code:

proc ObjectManager.collectGarbage ()

Remove all objects.

code:

proc ObjectManager.unload ()

If you look in the New and Delete module you can see that it is really easy to add your own fuctions/procedures to create and remove other objects. These modules, by the way, are there to simplify creating objects due to Turing's lack of constructors/destructors and awkward implementation of "new".

[Hackmaster]

Wow. this is pretty nice, eric...

but i'm curious. why is it you post a whole bunch of things that no one is ever gonna use? I mean, the more advanced user, like me, might know what you are doing, but the more advanced user could do it himself. I admire your persistance though.

some of the stuff you've made is actually really cool. the mouse event handler? nice... and the vector class was going in the right direction as well... good job! keep it up!

[ericfourfour]

I don't know why I do it Hackmaster. The thing is though. Whenever I post something like this, I always find a better way of doing it a week after.