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Subj : Re: CUJ Article: Atomic Reference Counting Pointers
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Tue Jan 04 2005 07:47 pm


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).

regards,
alexander.

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