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Subject: Re: [boost] Asynchronous library now in Boost Library Incubator
From: Thomas Heller (thom.heller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-12-06 09:55:14


On Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2016 15:44:39 CET you wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2016 21:45:52 CET Christophe Henry wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > I didn't quite understand the state machine explanation - but I'll
> > > continue looking through the boost.asynchronous material until I am
> > > happier.
> >
> > I tried to add an example and the underlying rationale
> > (https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/henry-ch/asynchronous/b
> > lo b/master/libs/asynchronous/doc/asynchronous.html#d0e6437).
> >
> > The Manager is a very simplified state machine but I hope you get the
> > idea.
>
> When looking at the example code, doesn't it contain a race on
> Manager::needs_second_task member. If not, how is it avoided?

So in this example, the race is avoided because it uses a single thread
scheduler as the "thread world", right? What happens if I'd change it to run
on multiple threads?

>
> > Cheers,
> > Christophe
> >
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