Re: [boost] [Review] XInt Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] XInt Review
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-04 17:09:12

On 04/03/2011 21:15, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> At Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:20:43 +0100,
> Mathias Gaunard wrote:
>>
>> On 04/03/2011 18:55, Chad Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> It isn't meant to be shared between threads. The internal code is
>>> single-threaded, and if you enable this on the public interface, you
>>> explicitly *dis*able the library's thread safety.
>>
>> Sharing data between threads is not the same as accessing the same
>> data concurrently from multiple threads.
>
> In what way are those two things... two things?  As far as I can tell
> they mean exactly the same.

I guess that statement doesn't really say what I meant it to say ;).

I meant to say that there is no need for the primitives of the resource 
to be robust with regards to concurrent execution for the resource to be 
shared across threads, since of course the threads can be synchronized 
at a higher level to ensure that concurrent execution of any of the 
primitives does not happen.