Daniel James <dnljms@gmail.com> writes:
On 9 February 2013 14:40, Alexander Lamaison <awl03@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
Ralph Tandetzky <ralph.tandetzky@googlemail.com> writes:
On 02/09/2013 07:13 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
I would really like to get feedback on the design of cow_ptr<T> <https://github.com/ralphtandetzky/cow_ptr.git> rather than discussing, if copy-on-write is a useful pattern in general.
No doubt. As an author that's only natural. But this debate, about whether the library even needs to exist, is a necessary and vital part of the process, and keeps Boost the quality that it is.
Don't take the scepticism personally. It's just the way peer review works.
Saying that COW is *never* needed is not scepticism, it's dogma.
Maybe so, but the to-and-fro it causes is precisely what illuminates the issues involved for the rest of us. It doesn't really matter whether someone is being dogmatic or just playing devils advocate. Alex -- Swish - Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)