Re: [boost] [thread] RFC standard proposed mutex, read-write mutex, condition

On Aug 22, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

I'm not convinced that std::condition is more special in terms of performance requirements than say std::vector or std::for_each.

There are plenty of other components that are commonly used in performance-critical code -- which is precisely why the standard does not require such components to detect and report errors

std::vector currently reports errors via throwing a std::length_error whenever the size() threatens to exceed max_size(). This is arguably a logic error since both size() and max_size() could be inspected before any insert or push_back. There is precedent for error checking in vector (though not for_each). -Howard