From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-22 08:49:54
At 02:00 PM 10/19/01 +0300, Peter Dimov wrote:
>From: "Darin Adler" <darin_at_[hidden]>
>> j) reset() on a unique shared_ptr now allocates memory due to
simpler
>> swap idiom implementation
>
>I believe that boost implementations have several goals:
>
>* Provide a (standard-ready) library specification for the LWG;
>* Provide a reference implementation of the above;
>* Advocate good design and coding practices;
>* Provide a library that is useable in real world conditions.
Yes, exactly.
>Therefore I think that in this particular case we should omit the
>optimization, keeping the reference implementation clear, readable, and
>'obviously' correct.
I strongly agree.
--Beman