On Thursday, 24 de November de 2011 23:49:02 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 03:35:57PM +0100, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > At first thought, I'd say that the pattern class should be a regular,
> > implicitly-shared, atomic copy-on-write value class. If you call a
> > non-const method, it detaches.
> >
> > There should be no const methods that modify internal caches. Period. If
> > you compile the pattern, it's a non-const method and it detaches.
>
> that makes lazy compilation really tough to implement ...

Yes and no. Lazy compilation of the pattern is tough to implement, but it's
not because of what I said above. The reason why it's tough is also the reason
why I said what I said above:

You cannot const_cast a shared object without either: atomically detaching or
locking a mutex. If you have a mutex because of the lazy initialisation /
compilation, then you don't need atomic reference counting and detaching. A
single int, protected by the mutex, would be enough.

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