Subj : Re: implementing thread library
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Jomu
Date : Fri Feb 11 2005 02:49 am

  Very nice model would be Modula-3 one too... Esp for learning. Lots
of things in POSIX 4a are compromises and not generally and practically
useable at all.

  I am surely biased, but only three things one really needs to
understand and use threads are - thread, mutex and condvar. Everything
else is optional sugar and in most cases have very specific uses - most
of them inside low level implementation parts of advanced threading
systems for MP machines and similar.

  dd

Gianni Mariani wrote:
> varun wrote:
> > Hi..evryone..i am a student..and want to implement a thread library
for
> > suporting multithreading..say..on linux..a smaller
prototype..smwhat
> > like pthreads..i want to know..how to proceed to this problem..and
what
> > are the requirements for it..
>
> Just a thought, use TDD ...
>
> Demonstrate how you would use your thread library and tell us how
it's
> better (in your opinion).
>
> I built a thread library in Austria C++ and I purposely used simple
> synchronization primitives.  No "Event" or "Semaphore".  No "Wait on
> multiple objects".  The released version (0.8) is incomplete.  What
it
> will have is thread pools and queueable "activities".  I think this
is a
> paradigm that allows true thread safe "asynchronous" interfaces.  So,
in
> theory I can build classes are are both thread-safe and contained.
> 
> ... just a thought.

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