Re: [boost] [Any] Reference counting

Subject: Re: [boost] [Any] Reference counting
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-06 10:41:12

Michael Howell wrote:

>> Hence this is fairly useless, especially since we're getting move 
>> semantics soon.
> "Soon" is relative. The trunk GCC may support it instantly (may already), but 
> Debian Stable won't, nor will MSVC (both which will be used for a good while). 
> Also, you usually copy the value when you store it, which may or may not 
> involve writing.

Boost has a move emulation library as well as move-aware standard 
containers.