Subj : Re: C++ desired features
To   : comp.lang.c++.moderated,comp.programming.threads
From : Llewelly
Date : Wed Mar 02 2005 05:55 am

"Sergey P. Derevyago" <non-existent@iobox.com> writes:

> Hans Boehm wrote:
> > It may be that we actually agree here.  I didn't quite understand the
> > last sentence above.
> >
>       IMHO the points are:
>
> H.B.: In a typical MT application there exist a lot of (application-)shared
> data which is modified from the several threads simultaneously. Typical
> destructors almost always modify the shared data so the calls to these
> destructors have to be somehow serialized.
>
> S.D.: In a well-designed MT application the threads work almost independently,
> the (application-)shared data is pretty rare and concentrated in a few
> well-know places. So a GC can call the finalizers at any time, no external
> synchronization required.

H.B. refers to destructors. You refer to finalizers. Are you assuming
     finalizers and destructors are the same thing?

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