Re: [boost] [intrusive] making a list safe for concurrent readers

Subject: Re: [boost] [intrusive] making a list safe for concurrent readers
From: Michael Marcin (mike.marcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-16 15:37:04

Ion Gaztañaga wrote:
> 
> Yes. Although the standard does not guarantee it, I think most (all?) 
> implementations offer read-only thread-safety. Intrusive offers similar 
> guarantees. Intrusive documentation says:
> 

Based on this I took another look. At least VC++ 2008 explicitly gives 
this guarantee so thank you. I can skip inventing a list for at least a 
little bit longer until I need to ensure portability.

Thanks