Re: [Boost-users] [signals] Automatic connection management and MT

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-05 10:10:41

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On Saturday 03 February 2007 18:28 pm, Timmo Stange wrote:
> I took Boost.Signals, removed grouping, naming and tracking
> (which are together responsible for more than half of the code)
> and added rudimentary threading support with a single
> recursive_mutex. I didn't want to spam the list with several
> kB of compressed code, so I put it here:
>    http://www.sepulchrum.com/sources/mt_signals.tar.gz

I'm noticing the mutex appears in the precompiled library part of the code.  
A desirable design goal for the final implementation is for the user to be 
able to put thread-unsafe signals in his single-threaded code and not have 
to link to libboost_thread and other threading libraries.  It seems like 
that would either require the mutex code be kept in the headers, in 
classes templated by the thread-safety policy (probably partial template 
specializations), or two separate precompiled library provided, one for 
the thread-safe and one for the thread-unsafe signals.

- -- 
Frank
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