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From: Howard Hinnant (howard.hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-25 16:22:06


On Jul 25, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Graham Reitz wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Howard. It is much appreciated.
>
> I know this a little out of boost scope, but since I have your
> attention:
>
> I don't know if the other members of the standards committee read
> this forum, but C++ threads is too important, for something like
> cancellation disagreements, to prevent it from becoming a C++
> standard.
>
> From an academic language perspective, how a thread cancellation
> proceeds might be important. But for engineers, who are used to
> using libraries that 'are good enough', we find a way to make things
> work, elegant or not. Personally, I would take any of the proposed
> solutions if the alternative was no C++ thread support.
>
> Herb Sutter, at this years SD West Conference, spent a session
> talking about the future importance multi threaded applications,
> especially with the rise of multi-core cpus. The memory hole is
> getter bigger and the expectation is that cpus with numerous cores
> will be the plug. Based on this assumption, any language that
> expects to remain the future systems language must have thread
> support.
>
> (Committee members) Please find a way to compromise and push this
> through.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, committee members are reading, and for
those that aren't, I'll personally make sure your message is heard.

-Howard


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