Re: [boost] [lexical_cast] optimization commited to HEAD

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-01 05:01:24

Gregory Dai wrote:
>> Have I got that right?
>
>
> Well, not completely perhaps. E.g., at least if the target is a
> std::string of size=0, the resultant std::string may well be
> reference-counted and shared by multiple threads.

Can you explain some more?  Are you saying that if two unrelated threads 
each default construct a string (or maybe construct a zero length string?) 
then they will be entangled by reference counting?

Thanks, John.