Re: [boost] [log] Is it lock free ?

Subject: Re: [boost] [log] Is it lock free ?
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-09 10:19:57

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Julien Nitard <julien.nitard_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> My interpretation of a log library should be multiple producer single
> consumer, is there such a lockfree library (not patented) that boost could
> use ?
>

Boost.Log has an internal thread safe queue. It is not lock-free but it is
quite efficient.

There is Boost.LockFree library, although its data structures impose
certain requirements on the stored types that are not suitable for
Boost.Log.