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thrownaway2424 | 9 years ago

The thing to keep in mind is that copying a shared_ptr isn't cheap at all. It's a class with a pointer and atomic reference count inside and the atomic inc/dec takes many cycles.

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leni536|9 years ago

How does this compare to the cost of a closure in other languages? Yeah atomic reference counts are not cheap, but basically that's the point of a shared_ptr.

thrownaway2424|9 years ago

I'm not sure. I don't program in C++ because I want it to have performance comparable to other languages.