Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] thread_specific_ptr performance
From: James Mansion (james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-11 15:24:32
Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Yes, that's what I did in my patch in ticket #2361. One inconvenience
> with that approach is to restrain the size of the vector if
> thread_specific_ptrs are constantly created/destroyed. I did not solve
> it in my patch but it should be quite doable.
>
> I really hope Anthony will take a look at it and come up with a
> vector-based solution. Or I can finish the patch myself, if it has any
> chance of getting into SVN. Anthony?
I'm just in the process of doing something much the same myself. I don't
think limiting the number of slots is really an issue in practice if you
can allow a 4k page for each thread. There's no real need for each
library to use more than one slot.
James