[boost] Re: shared_ptr/weak_ptr and thread-safety

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-23 14:21:06

Larry Evans wrote:

[... Weighted Reference Counting... ]

Thanks. Looks intriguing, but has some {probably severe} 
drawbacks with respect to "general purpose" application, 
I think. I'm now reading this paper:

http://cs.nyu.edu/goldberg/pubs/gold89.pdf
(Generational Reference Counting: A Reduced-Communication 
 Distributed Storage Reclamation Scheme)

regards,
alexander.