Re: Re: [boost] Re: A new boost::thread implementation?

From: William E. Kempf (wekempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-12 12:13:44

Peter Dimov said:
> William E. Kempf wrote:
>>
>> It's not just the efficiencies that concern me with dynamic
>> allocation.  It's the additional points of failure that occur in this
>> case as well.  For instance, check out the article on embedded coding
>> in the most recent CUJ (sorry, don't have the exact title handy).
>> Embedded folks generally avoid dynamic memory when ever possible, so
>> I'm a little uncomfortable with a solution that mandates that the
>> implementation use dynamic allocation of memory.  At least, if that's
>> the only solution provided.
>
> This allocation isn't much different than the allocation performed by
> pthread_create. An embedded implementation can simply impose an upper
> limit on the total number of async_calls and never malloc.

True enough.

-- 
William E. Kempf