Subj : Re: CUJ Article: Atomic Reference Counting Pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joseph Seigh
Date : Tue Jan 04 2005 03:55 pm

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:47:00 +0100, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de>  
wrote:

>
> Joseph Seigh wrote:
> [...]
>> If you had real GC (I assume you're referring to Boehm style GC) and its
>> performance wasn't a problem, why would you use reference counting?
>
> You would use atomic<T *> without any reference counting. With real
> GC, strong thread-safety for shared_ptr<T>-like beasts comes almost
> "for free" (apart from extra msync which is not needed in the case
> of basic thread-safety).

You're not making sense.  Why would you use one form of GC on top of  
another?

Joe Seigh

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