Re: [boost] shared_ptr/shared_count and the cost of use counter allocation

Subject: Re: [boost] shared_ptr/shared_count and the cost of use counter allocation
From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-10 12:48:08

Hi Michael !

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 18:26:38 Michael Marcin wrote:
> IIRC the pool of sp counted objects used won't be cleaned up until the
> OS reclaims the memory at program termination. If you run any sort of
> leak detector this can be annoying.

Yes, this is the reason why I have special build variant for running memory 
checks using valgrind :-))
When using valgrind, the speedup of BOOST_SP_QUICK_ALLOCATOR is neglible. But 
valgrind reports the pool and the allocated shared counts as "leaks". So turn 
it off when using valgrind.

Yours,

Jürgen
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