Subj : Re: Thoughts about threads in C++
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Thu Apr 28 2005 08:32 pm

Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com> writes:

> a. creating a new physical thread and releasing it afterwards
> b. reusing a thread that was created previously
> c. run everything explicitly in separate pipelines of the multicore
> CPU, which actually does not require any OS-level threading at all
> d. (whatever else)
>
> By explicitly creating threads and messing with their IDs (or handles)
> I bind myself to a. or b.,

No, you don't. The implementation can reuse threads, or implement
them without OS-level threads. Your proposal doesn't make it easier.
Reusing threads is easy in both cases, using some other mechanism
underneath is hard in both cases.

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