Re: [boost] [stratified] library for micro-/userland-threads

Subject: Re: [boost] [stratified] library for micro-/userland-threads
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-03 04:44:36

On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:50:41AM +0200, Oliver Kowalke wrote:
> > I'd recommend 'fiber', not getting stuck up on platform specific names.
> > After all, you've got things like the Windows mutexes which are IPC
> > primitives, while the 'mutex' in Boost.Thread is intra-process.
> 
> hmm - boost.stratified does not contain IPC primitives - mutext,
> conditon_variable, ... use only context swapping (from boost.context).
> the kernel is never involved.

I did not mean to imply that it does. It was intended to demonstrate
that there are names in Boost that generalizes a platform-specific name.

The entity referred to as "you" here is the collective you, not the
particular you "you".

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Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]