Re: [Boost-users] [Thread] thousands of spurious wakeups from timed_wait() per second

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Thread] thousands of spurious wakeups from timed_wait() per second
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-09-15 17:36:44

On 15 Sep 2014 at 20:27, Steven Clark wrote:

> Last week when I casually looked through Boost documentation, it was not
> at all clear to me that chrono is newer and should be preferred in new
> code.  This morning I made the straightforward transformation of my test
> program to use chrono and it works correctly on Linux 3.13.0 with Boost
> 1.54.  I've not yet back-ported wait_until() to Boost 1.48 or 1.46 to
> see if it works on my other platforms.  My time might be better spent
> updating those platforms to use the latest Boost. 

chrono is what ended up in the C++ 11 STL. It is probably much better 
tested with the older xtime API pretty much deprecated. We probably 
should actually mark that older API with deprecation compiler 
warnings really ...

> Would it be a good idea for me to morph my test program into a unit test
> and add it to the Boost:thread test suite?  If so, would someone like to
> point me in the right direction and answer questions? 

Please do and send it to me privately. I'll see if I can fix the bug 
next Saturday and I'll add any test case you supply to keep in sane 
into the future.

Niall

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