[Boost-users] C0x11 threading capabilities

Subject: [Boost-users] C0x11 threading capabilities
From: Erotavlas_turbo_at_[hidden]
Date: 2011-12-01 12:49:22

Hi, 

I have some question about the threading programming capabilities of boost 
library. 
First question: The new C++ standard C++11 has a support for threading 
programming. I have read some times ago, that with high probability the 
threading library of the C++11 should be the same of boost library? If it is 
true, can I use the boost thread library and in the future, when the C++ 
standard will be completed, could I transparently switching to it? What are the 
differencies between the boost thread library and the future C++11 thread 
library?
Second question: this question is strictly related to the first one. At the 
moment GCC supports only a small subset of threading programming features http:
//wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C++0xCompilerSupport. So using thread boost library 
allows me to use the full features of future C++ standard library? Or I'm 
limited by the compiler?
Last question: what about the OpenMP directives? How they are different in 
terms power and flexibility for the parallel programming task respect to the 
boost library? 

Thank you 

Best Regards