Do I need to protect read access to an STL container in a multithreading environment?

Question

I have one std::list<> container and these threads:

• One writer thread which adds elements indefinitely.

• One reader/writer thread which re

Answer 1

Checkout the concurrent containers provided by Intel's Open Source Threading Building Blocks library. Look under "Container Snippets" on the Code Samples page for some examples. They have concurrent / thread-safe containers for vectors, hash maps and queues.