Re: [Boost-users] thread library

From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-20 14:50:46

Using the boost::thread lib would mean that your thread code is
portable to different OS's. I don't know how good or bad the linux
thread lib is. I would suspect it's a C lib and so doesn't offer C++
handiness. Whereas boost::thread is a C++ lib.

Christian

On 1/20/06, Robert Hanson <robert.hanson_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> I'm looking at porting a windows (win32) app to linux.  Is there a good
> reason to consider the boost thread library over the linux thread library?
> Does boost provide a wrapper for threads, so that I won't need to change my
> source code when porting between the two?
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