Re: C++14: Papers
On Saturday, April 27, 2013 1:03:25 AM UTC+1, Ian Collins wrote:
Christopher Pisz wrote:
On 4/6/2013 8:56 PM, =D6=F6 Tiib wrote:
On Sunday, 7 April 2013 02:44:59 UTC+3, Leigh Johnston wrote:
On 05/04/2013 21:40, Rui Maciel wrote:
boost.asio would be a great addition to C++.
Yes, but currently it works only on POSIX or Windows AFAIK.
Furthermore, does it really buy you anything on POSIX? As far as I know=
,
only Windows offers IO Completion ports for the implementation to take
advantage of.
Also, I've found boost::asio to be a real pain in my buttocks to debug.
Offering output to std::cerr just doesn't do it when trying to find out
who bound work to be completed. Seeing "My generic thread handler that
could have been called from anywhere" at the top of the call stack isn'=
t
very useful. Some mechanism is needed to track down the binder in debug=
ging.
+1. I've seen projects try and use boost.asio, but never successfully
or with any tangible benefit. The usual result is confused programmers!
For most applications, threads will acheive anything asynch IO
could, in a more flexible manner. I used asynchronous IO back
in the 1970's, before we had threads (or even multiple
processes), but I don't see any real use for it today.
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James