Re: [boost] Gauging interest in a thread-safe containers library

Eric Greveson wrote:

I've recently been doing some work that required thread-safe containers (queue, channel) and I found that in addition to these, a locking_ptr with similar semantics to boost::shared_ptr (except being thread-safe too)

shared_ptr is already thread-safe. Did you mean you perform a lock around the access to the wrapped pointer? Why is it tied to shared ownership? This should be distinct things. Apart from that, if I were to use a thread-safe queue, I would probably use one designed for maximum efficiency using lock-free techniques, rather than one designed in terms of naive locking. Intel TBB provides that kind of thing already; and there had been discussion of integrating TBB into Boost in the past.