Re: [boost] Re: New New Callbacks Uploaded

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-23 12:05:26

From: "Douglas Gregor" <gregod_at_[hidden]>

> My impression was that Peter Dimov wanted the callback to prevent multiple
concurrent invocations of the callback, but I don't see how cloning solves
this problem either. In fact, reference counting seems the better solution
in this case because the functor being called can manage concurrency.
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Cloning would create a new copy of the function object, making the
concurrent invocations operate on different instances. In the absence of
static variables this should be thread safe.

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Peter Dimov
Multi Media Ltd.