Re: [boost] Proposal for library addition: faster signals/slots, reactor, atomics

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for library addition: faster signals/slots, reactor, atomics
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-25 11:43:05

Jeffrey Bosboom wrote:
> Helge Bahmann wrote:
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> I have written a small library providing:
>>
>> - a (thread-safe) signal/slot implementation
>> - poll/timer/reactor implementation
>> - atomic operations modelled after the proposed C++0x standard (x86 
>> 32/64 bit, ppc, alpha, more if someone donates hardware; fallback 
>> implementation using locks)
> 
> I'm not really interested in the signals/slots implementation or the 
> reactor, but I'm very interested in an implementation of the C++0x 
> standard atomics.  I encourage you to split the atomics from the other 
> parts of the library, since they will be useful in many more contexts 
> (including other Boost libraries).

+1, absolutely.