[Boost-users] Best way to share data in an object between two threads?

From: boost_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-04-12 17:14:20

WinXP, Visual Studio 2003

I have a dialog based application which consists of the main thread  
and a data collection thread.  The main thread updates a graph from  
data read by the data collection thread.  I want to use an object,  
which is of type MyData to share the data between the threads.  So ,  
basically the data collection thread which collects data from a piece  
of hardware and places it in the MyData object, then the main thread  
reads from the MyData object and updates the graph.

After reading a bit on shared memory, managed mapped memory etc. in  
Boost, I am a bit confused on how to do this.

What is the best boost classes to use for this?  Will I also need a  
sync object to synchronize the threads?

Thanks,
Ed