Subj : Re: [RFC] Boost.Threads on its way to C++0x
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Peter Dimov
Date : Sun Apr 24 2005 05:13 pm

Joe Seigh wrote:
> It doesn't look like any changes at the language level, so the whole
> range of threading issues like word tearing, false sharing, etc...
> isn't being addressed.  Plus the issues that will show up with
> lock-free programming like atomicity, memory visibility, compiler
> optimization directives, storage attributes, etc...

This is the library part. The language part is handled by another subgroup 
of the C++ committee, the Evolution Working Group. I don't know much about 
this part.

> Anyway, this is all being done because Microsoft won't implement
> Posix threads on windows, or Posix won't define a C++ api for
> pthreads, or both?

A little bit of both, I think, plus the fact that the initial development of 
Boost.Threads consisted mainly of reinventing the Posix wheels badly. But 
Microsoft lacking pthread.h is probably the primary cause of this as well.

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