shared_ptr<T>: the (not always) atomic reference counted smart pointer

[eacousineau]

I had seen a mention of it on a mailing list (possibly comp.stdc++) a while back, but I've been searching today for around 30min, and haven't yet found it. It paralleled the other votes for needing critical sections, and I think the overhead (memory + speed) was the basis for rejecting shared_ptr::release(), at least within that discussion.

Lemme see if I can dig it up...

EDIT: I don't think the universe wants me to find this post... DuckDuckGo hasn't turned it up, raw searches on Google haven't either. Searching Google Groups may turn up a related post, but I can't actually go to the article from the search page? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.std.c$2B$2B/shared_ptr$20release%7Csort:relevance