Howard Hinnant schrieb:
I can answer the std::part. I attempted to introduce a fairly rudimentary priority system into the std::thread proposal and it ended up being sufficiently controversial that I pulled it in order to get the std::thread proposal to advance. It is my hope (as a fallback position) that the "native_handle" interface will allow one to adjust thread priorities, albeit in a non-portable fashion.
Is it likely Boost::Thread will get some support for this anytime soon? This "no-priority" thing is also keeping me back from switching some stuff over to Boost, as I wonder how you are supposed to spawn of a background-idle thread without priorities. The only cross-platform library that supports it is AFAIK Qt -- see http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4beta/qthread.html#start, which is quite handy. Cheers, Anteru