atomic operations for shared_ptr ?

[Bronek Kozicki]

On 24/08/2013 18:51, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 24 August 2013 18:45, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
>>
>> what are the current plans for supporting atomic_* free functions for
>> shared_ptr, as defined in C++11 (20.6.2 "Header <memory> synopsis")? These
>> would be very useful for passing shared_ptr objects between threads, esp. if
>> there are multiple readers and single writer.
>
> I've been thinking about it recently and am probably just going to
> implement it with a single global mutex used for all shared_ptr
> instances.


erm, but that would be even worse than using mutexes as in my example 
code ....


B.