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