On Nov 14, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
I'm not totally enthralled by the condition_variable_any name. If someone has a suggestion for a more meaningful name, now is a good time to speak up.
I wonder why not making condition_variable a template with a mutex type in its template parameter. We could specialize it on the boost::mutex type to have the current optimized condition_variable implementation and leave it implemented as condition_variable_any for a general case.
The rationale for the current design (with different names) can be found here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2406.html#condition... There is a bullet that begins with:
If the condition is templated on mutex type, ...
-Howard