shared_ptr VS. intrusive_ptr?

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Originally Posted by TriKri

I don't see how the C++ standard would not be able to maintain the multithreading behavior. Isn't that pretty basic?

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It's pretty basic (the shared counter must be atomic) but it's still not obvious that a C++ shared pointer will adobt this behaviour. My point was that Boost suggestions aren't nesessarily included "as is" into the C++ standard.