Re: [boost] Atomic Shared Ptr

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

I made it a bit more complex:

Hi Peter, Wow, that was fast. Thanks!

The reason it was so simple was because it was using the already existing atomic functions. And no, it's not lock-free. Lock-freedom requires significantly more complexity (and a double-width CAS).

Why not improve the existing functions and keep using those? -- Olaf