Douglas Gregor <dgregor <at> osl.iu.edu> writes:
Anthony Williams wrote:
Irrespective of any fixes applied to boost.Function, this has been fixed in the trunk --- boost.thread no longer depends on boost.function.
It was fixed on the trunk for Boost.Function long ago. It's interesting that the thread library no longer depends on 'function' (at least, for launching threads); I see how the change was done (using virtual functions, which was once the implementation trick used in Function), but I'm curious as to why? Function has some storage optimizations that will tend to make it more efficient that the basic virtual function/templated derived class idiom.
I wanted the interface to match that being proposed for C++0x, which has the constructor being a template. I was considering using boost::function in the implementation, but I never got round to it. Anthony