[poppler] QT4, API documentation

[Stefan Kebekus]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 22:22, Wilfried Huss wrote:

> >From the Qt documentation:
>
>   "The QPixmap class uses implicit sharing, so you can pass QPixmap objects
> around by value."
>
> So returning pixmaps should not be a problem.

Yes, QPixmap is internally little other than a pointer to an internal 
structure that has a usage count ---QT itself passes QPixmaps as arguments 
all the time. If you look at the code you'll see that we do the double 
copying that Albert mentioned anyway.

Best,

Stefan.
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