Subj : Re: Lock Free Programming with Boost::shared_ptr instead of Hazard   Pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : SenderX
Date : Mon Mar 21 2005 02:43 pm

> BTW, they're like a herd of cats now in c.l.c++.m.  They're all over
> the place.

;)




> They have no clue what Hazard pointers are really
> appropiate for.

Yeah. They seem to want to use hazard pointers to implement a lock-free 
shared_ptr. That would be way to expensive and the scalability would be 
horrible. I am finding that hazard-pointers can be fairly useful to protect 
proxy collector objects...


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