30 Jan
2015
30 Jan
'15
6:55 p.m.
On 30 Jan 2015 at 18:09, Antony Polukhin wrote:
Just curious, maybe ideas from Mesa's mutex could be useful for some of the Boost libraries.
I believe Vicente's current plan is that v5 Boost.Thread will extend the C++ 11 STL. Therefore boost::mutex would be implemented using std::mutex in v5 with the extensions Boost.Thread provides over the STL. Besides, last time I looked any STL mutex was already implemented using an atomic fastpath and lazy kernel wait object allocation after a spin. The win32 critical section has been that design since year dot. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/