Re: [boost] intrusive_ptr ?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-25 06:39:48

From: "Christophe Meessen" <christophe_at_[hidden]>
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> I was looking for some documentation on using intrusive_ptr but they are
> apparently not documented. Looking at the header files I got some hints
> how to use them.
>
> Why are the intrusive_ptr not documented ? Does it mean that it is not
> standard and official ? Would we have portability problem if we use them ?

intrusive_ptr.hpp is not documented because I haven't written the
documentation yet. Most of my Boost time is spent on shared_ptr at the
moment.

> The performance comparision of different solution shows that
> intrusive_ptr are more efficient and in some circumstances this might
> have a significant impact on the whole program performance.
>
> What wish would be that the intrusive_ptr and scoped_intrusive_ptr are
> described as part of the official smart pointer library. To be sure I
> could eventually rely on them.

What is scoped_intrusive_ptr?