"Michael Glassford" <glassfordm@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ce68e5$48s$1@sea.gmane.org...
Dayton wrote:
Roland wrote:
but the current model of associating a single method with a thread could be implemented as a specialization of a more object-oriented approach of modelling a thread as a class instance.
There disadvantages to that approach, which have been detailed elsewhere (I believe in other postings in this mailing list, in comp.programming.threads, etc.). One disadvantage, for example, is that you you have to do a lot of extra work to create a new type of worker thread, while in the Boost.Threads approach there's only one type of thread class and you do a different type of work simply by writing a new thread function.
Which can be a state-ful function object. I'm not sure if the OP is under the impression that only functions can be passed Jeff F