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Subject: Re: [boost] [context] 4 days left on Boost.Context mini-review
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-09 12:36:47


Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
> Note that Boost.Context has a much more
> comprehensive set of backends: while Boost.Coroutine only had a Linux
> x86 asm backend and relied on fibers or makecontext for portability,

I"m a window ms user and I found this unsatisfactory so I re-implemented
the context switch in inline assembly. This had the effect of making the
library header only. Is it really necessary that Boost.Context be a
compiled
library?

Robert Ramey


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