[boost] Re: problem with shared_ptr

From: Philippe A. Bouchard (philippeb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-17 18:09:06

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> "Philippe A. Bouchard" wrote:
> [...]
>> Microsoft's compiler seems to support more than 1 processor... even
>> more efficiently: [gack! snip snip snip]
>
> For *efficiency*, you really want to have NAKED increments for smart
> pointers with basic thread-safety. FWIW, the current Wintel stuff in
> this respect is brain-dead. Totally.

Sorry ;)

Obviously the smart pointer will need to run on SPARC servers for
multithreaded environments.  It looked like shared_count_x86_exp2.cpp
coudn't run on multiple platforms.

Regards,

Philippe