Re: [boost] Technical session at the October C++ meeting?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-20 12:19:41

At 03:16 AM 8/20/2001, jk_at_[hidden] wrote:

 >17 Aug 2001 18:50:35 +0400 Beman Dawes wrote:
 >>meet common needs without extensive parameterization. Someday a highly
 >>configurable smart pointer may be invented that is also very easy to use 

 >
 >If the current variant will be standardized, whether it begins an 
obstacle
 >for improvements?  Whether will leave it an opportunity for further
 >optimization of smart_ptr<>, for example, specializations for an 
intrusive
 >reference counting, allocation of non-intrusive reference counter through
 >boost::pool and so on?

Those are good questions.  In general, a smart_ptr<> template could be 
added later without being impacted by existing shared_ptr<>, auto_ptr<>, 
etc.  Conversions would have to be considered, but that doesn't seem a huge 
problem.

--Beman