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.
Ivan was talking about thread-safe classes. You need to lock a mutex to take the copy. -- Marc Mutz <marc.m...@kdab.com> | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company Tel: +49-30-521325470 KDAB - The Qt Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
