Hello, I would like to know if the storage created for boost::thread_specific_ptr in the tss specific code for win32 is free'd after the destruction of said boost::thread_specific_ptr, or if it stays until the end of the process. For example: for(int i = very_big_number;i--;i > 0) boost::thread_specific_ptr<int> p(new int); To my knowledge, the pointer returned by new in this case is freed. But does the int* that is created to store the pointer to new int is also freed, or this program will get only bigger and bigger? I'm using boost 1.36. The boost in 1.34 did get bigger and bigger, and I modified to use a map, which made the complexity bigger (log N), but made it manageable to use spirit 1.8, which creates boost::thread_specific_ptr and destroys a lot of them. Thanks in advance, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida