Subj : Re: CUJ Article: Atomic Reference Counting Pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Wed Jan 05 2005 01:53 pm


Joseph Seigh wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:26:13 +0100, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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."
> >
> 
> For what?  

For strong thread-safety of tr1::shared_ptr<>-like beasts (vs basic
thread-safety).

regards,
alexander.

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