On Thursday 21 January 2016 05:33:51 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Marc Mutz wrote: > > You can lock a mutex in the function and unlock it in the shared_ptr's > > deleter. > > How can that possibly be faster than atomic reference counting? You have the > same cross-thread dependence plus a potential wait for the thread to > actually do its work. Not to mention that mutexes can cause deadlocks, > atomic reference counts can't.
It can't be because the simplest mutex lock operation is equivalent to an atomic operation, ditto for unlock. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
