James Mansion wrote:
Personally, I would welcome a framework that helps create multiprocess worker apps (strcuture a bit like Postgres I guess) and do it well. That's a much higher-level problem than any attempt to force an alien API on a system, and as such its easier to get acceptable performance everywhere. Personally I value Windows performance as much as anything alse and don't care for low-level emulations. ASIO is an example of something done right, IMO.
Then there is room for a new Boost library that does not overlap with Interprocess. Just like we have an API to create a simple thread and another library with pools and more advanced concurrency features. I think your approach can be very attractive but I'm not the right person to collaborate on this, I have no experience with this type of frameworks. And I think we need some pretty good discussion between concurrency experts until we find a good model for the framework. Any volunteer? Best, Ion