Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-02 14:06:51

On 2 May 2010 13:57, Chad Nelson <chad.thecomfychair_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I'm confused. How would that be different from what the
> library is doing now?
>

Semantically?  It wouldn't.  It just means you're leaving the thread
safety choices up to the user by providing the same guarantees that
just about every type in the standard and boost offer: Independent
instances can be used independently, shared instances need mutex.

Leave it up to the user whether they want thread-specific random,
mutexed random, task-queue-controlled random, whatever.