Re: [boost] Re: copy_on_write

From: Chris Little (cslittle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-31 16:09:08

on 5/31/05 2:59 PM, Alexander Terekhov at terekhov_at_[hidden] wrote:

> 
> "Victor A. Wagner Jr." wrote:
> [...]
>> IIRC there was an article written with the title something like
>> "Pessimization" which discussed the drawbacks to COW in a
>> multi-threading/tasking world.  It's one of the reasons that quit using
>> that paradigm.
> 
> Interesting. Do you have a link?
> 

It was an article by Herb Sutter.  It is on his web site here
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/optimizations.htm with a related article
here http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/045.htm.

Chris