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Rella
Rella

Reputation: 66945

Can boost Pointer Container Library be used as thread safe container collection?

Can we use boost Pointer Container Library to keep an array of strings winth thread safe push and pop and all such operations?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 396

Answers (2)

Praetorian
Praetorian

Reputation: 109149

No, as far as thread safety goes the same rules apply to the pointer container library and the standard C++ library containers. They're both safe for simultaneous read access from different threads but must be protected by mutexes to prevent simultaneous write access.

This is because the containers in the pointer container library simply use an underlying container_type<void*> of the corresponding standard container to store the objects. For instance, boost::ptr_vector uses an std::vector<void*>.

Upvotes: 4

Ed Heal
Ed Heal

Reputation: 60007

No is the answer. And now I have to make the answer last 30 characters when two would suffice.

Upvotes: 2

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