"William E. Kempf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[...] > You may not need to. It wholly depends on context. The key is that > atomic increments need not (portability issue) insure memory visibility. > If what you do next doesn't rely on the visibility of any memory, you > won't need a full lock. > > The other issue is how you know the increment is atomic? You mean that there is no way to increment the counter and copy its value atomically...? Philippe A. Bouchard _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
