[boost] Re: MT (Was: CGI scripting (Was: Libraries requested or under construction))

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-27 23:45:02

Paul Baxter wrote:

> Take a look at ACE for a well-designed threading/network solution.
> 
> http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html
> 
> The full library has all sorts of bells and whistles, but you can use
> subsets for those sections your app requires.
> (just low level frameworks for threads maybe)

As you say, it's somewhat big and complicated.

Also it seems to use some old-style interfaces, 
like int instead of bool. It provides many things 
unrelated with MT & distribution.

> That's not to say that alternatives aren't worth designing, but with that
> and the gnu pthreads project
> http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth.html
> which could be wrapped up into C++, there are good quality alternatives
> already.

pth is only for coroutines (it's unrelated with pthreads)

-- 
Valentin Bonnard