what's the point of rpython?

[Paul Rubin]

skip at pobox.com writes:
> Carl, I'm quite unfamiliar with Boost and am not a C++ person, so may have
> read what you saw but not recognized it in the C++ punctuation soup.  I
> couldn't find what you referred to.  Can you provide a URL?

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm#ThreadSafety

Note there is also something called "interprocess shared pointers"
(link below) that don't have that caveat.  I wonder if they use locks.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/doc/html/interprocess/interprocess_smart_ptr.html#interprocess.interprocess_smart_ptr.shared_ptr