Re: [boost] Thread Synchronization (Was Re: Sockets vs. net connection)

From: Jesse Jones (jesjones_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-03 19:58:02

>You comments about needing thread safety brings up a topic for 
>discussion, however.  Early in the development we talked about there 
>being a need for synchronization primitives even before we include 
>portable thread support.  We're basically close enough now to focus 
>on porting such primitives to various platforms and submitting an 
>initial version of the library to Boost.  My focus had moved on to 
>TLS and thread support rather than on finishing the synchronization 
>primitives, but maybe we should consider doing just this.  Any 
>thoughts from others on this?

I think this is the way to go. It'll be easier to discuss just 
synchronization primitives instead of synchronization and threads and it 
will probably provide a faster path to portably making libraries thread 
safe which I think is at least as important as portable threads.

  -- Jesse