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1 Reference Counted Touchables Design
This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button Select “Meeting Minder” Select the “Action Items” tab Type in action items as they come up Click OK to dismiss this box This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered. Reference Counted Touchables Design Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

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Motivation Use case Transportation creates touchables as a track propagates across volumes User actions get pointers to the touchables allowing to access their data Problem Transportation uses two touchables in the flip-flop way for pre-step and post-step points. Pointers passed to user actions become invalid after each step so the touchables must be copied Using touchable pointers implies explicit memory management in a user code and is error prone 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

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Requirements Touchables must become “persistent” remain valid after each step (during one run) Simpler (automatic) memory management no user action is required to create or delete them The existing interface should be preserved if possible 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

4 Affected classes and categories
G4VTouchable and its derivates G4GRSSolid, G4GRSVolume, G4TouchableHistory G4Navigator G4TransportationManager G4SteppingManager, G4Track, G4Step User actions Parametrization and ReadOut Geometry May be others... 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

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Possibilities Handle-Body design pattern G4NavigationLevel already implemented this way Smart-pointer idiom In both cases the use of pointers must go away Passing by pointer to an object provides no way to trigger proper reference counting unless the users are forced to follow the rule of adding and removing object reference counts by hand Microsoft (COM), Gaudi (Interfaces and Services) Both ways imply the clients keep or manipulate the counted objects only using their handles 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

6 Prototype implementation
The hybrid of auto_ptr (STL) with reference counting ability A templated class G4ReferenceCountedHandle is introduced Essentially a wrapping class emulating dumb pointers basically any object can be made reference countable Automagically deletes the object when object’s count is zero Implements copy constructor, assignment, dereferencing Supports conversions to the type of the counted object Can’t be created by new or deleted by calling delete Must be passed always by reference(&) or copy Multiple handles share one instance of counted object Does not support exclusive ownership an object behind the pointer can be modified 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

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Design - Class Diagram 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

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Design - Class Diagram 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

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Possible extensions Hide the operators new() and delete() an attempt to dynamically create or delete is detected at compile time Implementation using G4Allocator and related classes, if needed, to make it faster Alternative implementation of client classes smart-pointers not used directly as a reference counting handle client wrapper classes(handle) hold the smart-pointer to their implementation classes(body) 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

10 Alternative Implementation
class Handle { private: SmartPointer<Body> fCountableBody; }; 25 February 2019 Radovan Chytracek CERN IT/API Geant4

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