Subj : Re: STL Containers w/ Virtually Zero-Overhead Lock-Free Reads...
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From : kanze
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 06:48 am

Maciej Sobczak wrote:

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> Having said that, the implementation of STL that I'm using is
> lock-free in the sense that there are no locks at all.

Not even in the allocators?  In the end, all of the allocator
implementations I know finish sooner or later in malloc, and the
malloc implementations I know use a lock.

(But that's just a nit, of course.)

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