Re: [boost] Tools for singleton or monostate or alternative

Subject: Re: [boost] Tools for singleton or monostate or alternative
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-24 22:36:09

You might look at the lock-free singleton in the serialization library.

Robert Ramey

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to kindly ask for advice in finding tools within Boost
> collection that could help me to solve my problem.
>
> I'm developing a library (it will be used as dynamic-linked library).
> I need to manage a bunch of related values (numbers) globally.
> All values are shared across a client process, by its all threads,
> so thread-safety is under consideration.
> Mostly, a client needs to read the values (defaults) and sometimes,
> very rarely, a client needs to re-set the values.
>
> I consider to implement it using singleton or monostate pattern with
> thread-safety (and DLL-safety in mind), so actually Tobias Schwinger's
> Singleton library [1] would solve this problem well.
> However, I would prefer something from the Boost collection - Tobias'
> lib hasn't been approved [2], quite pity as Boost lacks of such
> tool, IMHO.
> Also, I've considered digging out singleton stuff from the
> boost::pool::detail, but I'm not convinced to this idea.
> I haven't found anything related to monostate patter in Boost.
>
> Would anyone suggest a tool available in Boost that would be
> usable to wrap up some basic but robust solution for my problem?
>
> By the way, any plan for update and another round of review of Tobias'
> library?
>
> [1] http://torjo.com/tobias/index.html
> [2] http://lists.boost.org/boost-announce/2008/01/0171.php
>
> Best regards,