Re: [Boost-users] Why does boost thread copy a functor?

"Chris Cleeland" wrote:

While I understand the rationale now (thanks to your excellent explanation), I will also point out that I am not alone in my misunderstanding of the interface. I discussed the issue with a few colleagues and asked what they would expect to happen, and they all had similar expectations to mine (that the functor was not copied). The commonality of misunderstanding is what prompted my suggestion that the copying of the argument be more explicit.

The documentation is crystal clear, though: "Effects: func is copied into storage managed internally by the thread library" (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#...)