Subj : Re: CUJ Article: Atomic Reference Counting Pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joseph Seigh
Date : Wed Jan 05 2005 07:27 am

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?  We were discussing reference counting.

Joe Seigh

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