Re: pthreads on win32

From: bill_kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-11 15:19:51

--- In boost_at_y..., "Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrewalex_at_h...> wrote:
> http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/
> 
> Maybe this could help make the Boost.Threads implementation more 
compact?
> The Win32 version and the Posix version could now be collapsed 
together if
> we use the pthreads port.

I use pthreads-win32 to implement the POSIX portion of the 
Boost.Threads implementation since I don't have access to any 
platform other than Win32, so I'm aware of it.  However, I think it's 
not really a good idea to use this as the implementation on Win32.  
The extra layers can only cause performance concerns.  Not to mention 
this would add a dependency to an external library outside of both 
Boost and the Win32 platform SDK.  This is counter to the 
requirements of Boost libraries.

Bill Kempf