Re: [boost] [Review] XInt Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] XInt Review
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-04 17:22:46

At Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:09:12 +0100,
Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> 
> 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.

+1, thanks for clarifying.

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