Re: Threading in new C++ standard
On Apr 16, 1:12 am, "Thomas J. Gritzan" <Phygon_ANTIS...@gmx.de>
wrote:
Dann Corbit wrote:
Rather than create a new way of doing things:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2497.html
why not just pick up ACE into the existing standard:
http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
the same way that the STL (and subsequently BOOST) have been subsumed?
Since it already runs on zillions of platforms, they have obviously work=
ed
most of the kinks out of the generalized threading and processes idea (a=
long
with many other useful abstractions).
It's not a new way. Its from boost.
Click on the Link for n2497, scroll down and read:
"Acknowledgments
The overall design of this threading library is based on
William Kempf's Boost.Thread Library, as refined by literally
hundreds of other Boost users and contributors."
Boost only represents a small part of threading in the standard.
Significant parts of the interface will doubtlessly profit from
the experience we've gotten with Boost; other parts are designed
to address lower level threading issues. And of course, Boost
more or less ignored the language issues (you get whatever the
platform gives), which are the most important in a standard.
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