Patch: fix intermittent crash in KHTML Thai Word Break

[Leo Savernik]

Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 18:33 schrieb Koos Vriezen:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:14:27PM +0100, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 17:43 schrieb Pattara Kiatisevi:
> > > This is new to me, I thought "delete x" means "free the memory that x
> > > is pointing to and set x to 0", hmm.
> >
> > No, it only means, free *x. C++ doesn't do "convenience" stuff that
> > potentially hurts performance.
>
> I always though that 'delete x' calls the operator delete of X that will
> call the destructor of X, which nicely can clean up what x could have
> left behind. 

"delete" calling the destructor is not a convenience, it's a necessity. 
Otherwise, there'd be no difference to free().

> Hurts performance badly .. 

Depends on the destructor (i. e. on the programmer ;-) ). If you mean 
deallocation, that's equally expensive under C.

> Aren't you confusing C++ with C?

Nope. C doesn't do *anything* implicitly.
>

mfg
 Leo
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