Re: [boost] Re: Lightweight Mutex Code

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-06 05:57:13

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
>
> Well, here is the implementation that I have seen:
> http://www.pdimov.com/cpp/shared_count_x86_exp2.hpp
> This implementation seems like it would be faster than what is
> presently being used, in all cases.
>
> I do not know why it is not used presently.  Hopefully Peter Dimov
> will comment.

This proof of concept implementation (of Alexander Terekhov's algorithm)
only works on MSVC/Windows. I'll try to portabilify and integrate it in the
main trunk after we branch for release. It's too late for 1.32.