Subj : Re: CUJ Article: Atomic Reference Counting Pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Wed Jan 05 2005 11:26 am


Joseph Seigh wrote:
[...]
> AtomicReference is compare and swap for Java pointers.  

atomic<T *> also has compare and swap (in addition to load(), store(), 
etc.)

> It has nothing to do with reference counting.  

atomic<T *> also has nothing to do with reference counting.

> You're not making any sense.

I said "You would use atomic<T *> WITHOUT any reference counting."

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=without

regards,
alexander.

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