[Threads-devel] boost_thread vs. boost_thread-mt

Subject: [Threads-devel] boost_thread vs. boost_thread-mt
From: Hei Chan (structurechart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-29 14:20:41

Hi,

According http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#library-naming, *-mt means the library has multithreading support.

So it sounds like in particular boost_thread-mt is slower (at microsecond level) than boost_thread?  Since I can imagine that boost_thread-mt involves a lot of locks...

Or for boost_thread-mt, it is the same as boost_thread since it is a thread library and so it considers and supports all sort of concurrency?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Hei