I'm using boost 1.51 on multiple platforms and compilers without C++11.

In my main thread, I have a very long, expensive to copy, std::string veryLongString, that I need to pass to a new thread for processing.

After the new thread is created I have no more use for veryLongString, hence I'd like to move it into the boost::thread ctor.

Obviously, if veryLongString was created as a shared_ptr<std::string> then I could just copy the shared_ptr into the thread ctor, but it wasn't, so I'd need to copy it anyway.