Re: [boost] Threads

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-02 11:33:09

Dietmar Kuehl wrote:

> The importance to do this right is simply that it does not help if two
> libraries to be used in a project are written with two different thread
> libraries: They simply won't work together. 

That's why it helps when the thread library is standard: it allows 
us to write portable actively thread safe code, but not thread hot 
code.

Definitions:

Thread hot: something that creates threads to do its job;
  example: Java GUI

Thread safe: something that can be used safely in a multi threaded 
  program

Passively thread safe: thread safe, w/o any calls with the 
  thread library
  example: most of the SGI STL

Actively thread safe: thread safe by using functions of the thread 
  library
  example: allocators, maybe rope in SGI STL

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Valentin Bonnard