Re: Atomic Reference Counting - Do you think this would be useful to Boost?
Chris Thomasson wrote:
Currently, Boost doesn't provide support for "true" atomically thread-safe
atomic reference counting:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/7b02ce7b874e6551
I have created an experimental prototype of one of my atomic reference
counting algorithms I posted over in c.p.t:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/be47a566e4388e0a
Does anybody think that Boost could make use of this level of thread-safety?
In boost I think there's an option to do so already in
reference-counted pointers. The only problem is that there is no
standard way to do atomic reference counting.
I actually have my own version that has optional atomic counting and it
is used only when necessary. Most of the time it is not. Passing
objects across threads using a producer/consumer queue is one of the
few occasions when they are used. A large collection being manipulated
by a single thread (at a time) is an occasion when they are not.
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