Hi,
I’m wondering how can this method be used in client code ?
I’ve seen that once you’ve locked the array, you can only call size() which isn’t lock protected, but all other method have a ScopedLock on enter (so it would deadlock if we called them).
Maybe it’s a good idea to add a “getUnlocked” method, which would be the internal of “getUnchecked” but with no lock protection ?
Something like:
/** Returns a pointer to the object at this index in the array, without checking whether the index is in-range.
This is a faster and less safe version of operator[] which doesn't check the index passed in, so
it can be used when you're sure the index if always going to be legal.
*/
inline ObjectClass* getUnchecked (const int index) const throw()
{
const ScopedLockType lock (getLock());
return getUnlocked(index);
}
/** Returns a pointer to the object at this index in the array, without checking whether the index is in-range,
and without locking the array.
This is a faster and less safe version of operator[] which doesn't check the index passed in, so
it can be used when you're sure the index if always going to be legal.
*/
inline ObjectClass* getUnlocked (const int index) const throw()
{
jassert (((unsigned int) index) < (unsigned int) numUsed);
return data.elements [index];
}This would avoid having another lock in our class for array protection while “slowly” iterating it.