[Development] Container refactor update

[bradley.hughes at nokia.com]

On 19 Jun, 2012, at 10:07 , ext Peter Kümmel wrote:

> BTW, are there any plans to use lock-free techniques somewhere within Qt?

http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/blobs/master/src/corelib/tools/qfreelist_p.h
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtbase/blobs/master/src/corelib/tools/qfreelist.cpp

;)

> Or have you already evaluated it? The lock-free strategy looks a bit
> like transactional memory: try it until it is right.

This is one approach, but there are others. I'd love to see more of them show up in Qt :)

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Bradley T. Hughes
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