Re: [boost] [MPI?] which API should i use for this?

Subject: Re: [boost] [MPI?] which API should i use for this?
From: John Phillips (phillips_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-08 12:18:02

David M. Cotter wrote:
> I have a need to send an "event" to the "main thread's event loop".
> 
> this may be done from a preemptive thread, a cooperative thread, a 
> timer, or even the main thread itself.  i want it to be posted into the 
> event stream and handled in the order that events get processed on the 
> main thread.
> 
> would i use 'MPI'?  or 'interprocess'?  or is there a 'thread' way to do 
> this?
> if it's MPI, what would be the right call?
> 
> i'm coming from Mac land where i have traditionally used 
> PostEventToQueue()

   David,

   I'll let others who know other libraries better than I talk about 
them, but I would suggest against MPI for this. The goal of MPI is 
cluster computing, and that does not seem to be what you are doing. I 
could come up with a way to write this in boost.MPI, but I don't think 
it would be a good way.

                        John