Re: [boost] [threadpool] relation with TR2 proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [threadpool] relation with TR2 proposal
From: joaquin_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-09-12 07:24:14

k-oli_at_[hidden] escribió:
> Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 10:52:50 schrieb joaquin_at_[hidden]:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I learnt yesterday that there is a TR2 proposal for a thread_pool,
>> sponsored by
>> our Boost colleague Anthony Williams:
>>
>> http://www2.open-std.org/JTC1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2276.html
>>
>> What is the relationship with this proposal of the threadpool library
>> that is being
>> discussed these days here at the Boost list?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Joaquín M López Muñoz
>> Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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>
> The threadpool lib in the vault has no relation to the TR2 proposal.
> It seams that Anthonys lib is simple - no support for task interruption, lazy
> task evaluation or task chanining, channel and queue types etc.
>   

It'd be an odd thing if we had a TR2 threadpool lib and a different lib 
in Boost (assuming
both proposals are succesful). Shoudln't there be some some syncing 
between the
respective authors?

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo