Re:The Horror in the Standard Library
by kazinator on Sunday May 07, 2017 @12:29PM
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> It turned out that the std::string empty string reference count was just doing a vanilla ++, no locking, nothing, variable not marked volatile, nothing.
The whole implementation is smells of silliness, because there is no need to track how many references there are to a global null string, which need not even be dynamically allocated.
The whole implementation is smells of silliness, because there is no need to track how many references there are to a global null string, which need not even be dynamically allocated.