[boost] Re: shared_ptr/weak_ptr and thread-safety

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-27 05:23:36

Trevor Taylor wrote:
[...]
> Why wait? With so many people contributing to boost, why not introduce a
> pthread_refcount_t into  into boost threads (or is there one already?),
> provide a default implementation equivalent to what shared_ptr does now,

Nah. atomic<> based stuff would surely be much better than what shared_ptr
does now, I think.

> and let the platform experts provide the optimal specialisations.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3EC4F194.2DA8701C%40web.de
(Subject: Re: Is this thread-safe on multi-processor Win32?)

regards,
alexander.

P.S. ``Where's Bill?'' ;-)