Re: [boost] [thread] thread_specific_ptr performance

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] thread_specific_ptr performance
From: James Mansion (james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-11 15:24:32

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Yes, that's what I did in my patch in ticket #2361. One inconvenience 
> with that approach is to restrain the size of the vector if 
> thread_specific_ptrs are constantly created/destroyed. I did not solve 
> it in my patch but it should be quite doable.
>
> I really hope Anthony will take a look at it and come up with a 
> vector-based solution. Or I can finish the patch myself, if it has any 
> chance of getting into SVN. Anthony?
I'm just in the process of doing something much the same myself. I don't 
think limiting the number of slots is really an issue in practice if you 
can allow a 4k page for each thread. There's no real need for each 
library to use more than one slot.

James