[Vxl-maintainers] Boost Smart Pointer?

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Amitha,

I think the idea of moving to threads is great! Most of our code has
trivial parallelism, and it is shameful for VXL not to take advantage of
the existing multi-core processing evolution.
I can=92t comment on which thread mechanism will be the most effective, but
a good initial result would be to have thread support for STL and vnl,
maybe vil that can be used by average programmers. I found this article
compelling in that regard,
http://pact07.cs.tamu.edu/Stroustrup_PACT2007.pdf

I do wonder about adopting boost smart pointers vs. the existing vxl
smart pointer.  Is there a big advantage to Boost=92s smart pointer? I
took a very cursory look at the design didn=92t seem to be all that
different.  The main thing seemed to be support for various levels of
memory sharing.

Joe