Re: [boost] [Serialization] Thread-safety of trunk code

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-22 13:23:33

Sohail Somani wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:

>>> Other than that, it looks good to me. Good job rewriting the
>>> dangerous parts rather than patching in the thread-safety.
>>
>> I  looked into this in some detail.  I concluded that a) it would be
>> very hard to do and would muck the library and b) it would slow
>> things
>> down a lot.  It has changed my whole perception as to how/when
>> to use multi-threading.
>
>
> I agree. I had the same change in perception after reading your code.
> Only thing that worries me is the portability of it.

LOL - well, at least we don't have to worry about portability
of a threading library, primitives etc.

Robert Ramey