Re: [boost] Proposal: Monotonic Containers

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal: Monotonic Containers
From: Christian Schladetsch (christian.schladetsch_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-16 00:25:54

>
> The nice thing about using monotonic::shared_storage is that you can use
> all containers in a thread-safe way transparently and efficiently, without
> needing to change the containers themselves.
>
> This is a very pleasing result.
>

That may be, but it is also incorrect.

Just by having the allocator thread-safe, doesn't mean that the containers
that use that allocator are also thread-safe.