[Boost-users] shared_ptr and thread safety 4

David Abrahams writes:

No, it's exactly "as threadsafe as int."

snip because of 'There's much more quoted text in your article than new. Prune quoted stuff.'

That sequence would not be safe with a naive reference-counted pointer that was totally unaware of thread safety.

'Inside COM' from Dale Rogerson suggests to make ref counting atomic (i.e. through InterLockedIncrement).