Re: [boost] Re: PThreads

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-25 10:10:08

Damian Dixon wrote:

 >IMHO I would prefer to see pthreads used as the underlying mechanism
 >for the thread library.

We have to think broadly; not just platforms like Unix and Win32 which have 
pthreads implementations available but also embedded systems and mainframes 
and who knows what.  Even on platforms with pthreads, a native 
implementation may be preferred for performance reasons, or to reduce 
coupling.

While much current discussion is rightly focused on safety, we will 
eventually have to address the issue of platforms.  It would be very 
reassuring to be able to say our test programs run correctly on embedded 
systems.  Does the Palm Pilot OS have any native support for concurrent 
programming?

--Beman