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Subj : Thoughts about threads in C++
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Maciej Sobczak
Date : Tue Apr 26 2005 04:06 pm

Hi,

There is a fervent discussion on pl.comp.lang.c about the possible 
thread support in C++.

I have gathered my thoughts in a single place, where I describe what in 
my opinion should be the appropriate threading support in a high-level 
programming language:

http://www.msobczak.com/prog/articles/threadscpp.html

The motivation for writing this was that I do not like the current 
approaches to do threading in C++. For example, pthreads is a very 
low-level API that does not give me enough abstraction. For another 
example, Boost.Threads imposes the "thread is an object" point of view, 
which I somehow do not share.

I would like to kindly ask you to express your opinion - what I'm 
interested in is whether what I wrote is complete nonsense or maybe it 
has some merits.

Please note that I do not tackle the memory model, which needs to be 
specified in C++ anyway. I'm interested in high-level usage patterns.

Thank you,

-- 
Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/
Programming    : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/

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