Re: [boost] [winapi] Default target Windows version

Subject: Re: [boost] [winapi] Default target Windows version
From: Olaf van der Spek (olaf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-16 06:05:51

On 16-10-2013 0:20, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 October 2013 23:05:45 Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>
>> What's the concrete advantage of defaulting to Vista? Performance?
>
> Yes, mostly. Vista has builtin support for condition variables and read/write
> mutexes, for example. Compiler-based TLS can be used safely with dlls.
> GetTickCount64 can also be useful in some contexts and is difficult to
> emulate. All these features will find their use at least in Boost.Sync and
> Boost.Log (the latter currently uses its own protocol for enabling use of
> these APIs, but it will be ported eventually).

If a program targets >= Vista, aren't defines available you could check 
anyway? Then there'd be no need to raise the default to Vista or to 
introduce a Boost WINAPI define.

Olaf