Re: [boost] Re: Not keen on Boost.Threads? [was: name of the "thread" type]

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-03 11:09:38

At 05:09 AM 7/3/2001, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
 >
 >> > > I have no idea what a "monitor pattern" is, for
 >> > example.
 >> >
 >> > Look it up :).
 >>
 >> Where? David Butenhof's book never mentions it, and Google just gives 
me
 >> a bunch of links to VDU vendors. Can you point me to a web site that
 >> describes it?

Try Hoare Monitor.  Google shows 3,820 hits.

 >http://www.acm.org/classics/feb96/
 >
 >"Monitors: An Operating System Structuring Concept
 > C.A.R Hoare..."

Thanks for the link, Alexander.

Hoare's and Brinch-Hansen's works on Monitors are among the most famous 
computer science papers ever published.  It is hard to imagine a quality 
threading library not designed to build on their work.

--Beman