Subj : Re: CUJ Article: Atomic Reference Counting Pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joseph Seigh
Date : Wed Jan 05 2005 09:46 am

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:53:57 +0100, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de>  
wrote:

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

>> >> 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).


But if you had GC why would you implement a reference counted pointer.
Wouldn't a regular GC collected pointer work better?

Joe Seigh

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