Re: [boost] Report from Berlin C++ Standards Committee meeting

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-13 13:27:14

"Ion Gaztañaga" <igaztanaga_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:443E3246.8010104_at_gmail.com...
>> I'd personally like you and the other Boost threading experts to keep
>> working on a thread launching interface above Boost.Threads, and if it 
>> seems
>> to be working out well, propose it for TR2. (That's my personal opinion - 
>> I
>> have no idea what the rest of the LWG thinks.) There is still enough time
>> for this if people get going. There has to be a proposal with proposed
>> wording for TR2 by October, but it can have some rough edges. If the LWG
>> likes it, you will have another six months to polish it and gain more use
>> experience.
>
> Ok, I have no problem to implement Kevlin's paper's thread launching
> interface above Boost.Threads without implementing the rest of his
> proposal, and do some documentation and tests. This issue is independent
> from mutex reduction suggestion so I plan to only implement
> thread-launching for now.

Good. If I can be of any help, let me know.

--Beman