Re: [boost] [thread] countdown_latch

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] countdown_latch
From: Rob Stewart (robertstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-21 07:08:26

On Apr 21, 2013, at 6:45 AM, "Vicente J. Botet Escriba" <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Le 21/04/13 10:27, Michael Marcin a écrit :
>> I recently ran across the need to spawn a thread and wait for it to finish its setup before continuing.
>> 
>> The accepted answer seems to be using a mutex and condition variable to achieve this.
>> 
>> However that work clutters up the code quite a bit with the implementation details.
>> 
>> I came across Java's CountDownLatch which does basically the same work but bundles it up into a tidy package.
>> 
>> 
> What about using boost::barrier

Of course. I'd forgotten Boost.Thread had that. I wish the standard library had included it.

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