[boost] Re: Lock unification

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-16 07:34:55

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not too worried.  It really would be semantically identical and
>> the timed lock code could contain a branch for the zero case if you
>> want efficiency.
>> 
>> It might still be too cute, but as long as we're talking about
>> slimming the interface down we should discuss it.
>
> This implicitly assumes relative timeouts.

As opposed to what?  Maybe I don't understand the term.

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