Chuck Allison wrote: [...]

viewing at http://www.artima.com/cppsource. The idea is to have

Quoting from http://www.artima.com/intv/elegance.html. Few comments follow. <quote author=Bjarne Stroustrup> I don't put in specific features for concurrency, because you can put them in a library. </quote> You can't do that without threaded memory model, to begin with. <quote> C was designed with the principle that you should be able to write its standard library in the language itself. That same principle guided the design of C++. </quote> Show me the the standard C++ impl of atomic<> for a rather simple thing like class swap_based_mutex_for_windows { // noncopyable atomic<int> m_lock_status; // 0: free, 1/-1: locked/contention auto_reset_event m_retry_event; // "slow" bin sema/gate public: // ctor/dtor [w/o lazy event init] void lock() throw() { if (m_lock_status.swap(1, msync::acq)) while (m_lock_status.swap(-1, msync::acq)) m_retry_event.wait(); } bool trylock() throw() { return !m_lock_status.swap(1, msync::acq) ? true : !m_lock_status.swap(-1, msync::acq); } bool timedlock(absolute_timeout const & timeout) throw() { if (m_lock_status.swap(1, msync::acq)) { while (m_lock_status.swap(-1, msync::acq)) if (!m_retry_event.timedwait(timeout)) return false; } return true; } void unlock() throw() { if (m_lock_status.swap(0, msync::rel) < 0) m_retry_event.set(); } }; regards, alexander.

Chuck Allison wrote:

Hello Boosters,

David Abrahams suggested I could send you an announcement on this list. For some time now (since last October, actually) a group of C++ luminaries have been discussing the virtues and possibilities of a peer-reviewed source for the C++ community. We have decided on the name "The C++ Source", and a preliminary page is available for viewing at http://www.artima.com/cppsource. The idea is to have seasoned C++ professionals review submissions to ensure that the publications are of high quality and of interest. There will also be tutorials, news, lots of stuff.

This is very impressive, but from the standpoint of the reader it appears very much to be a direct competitor to CUJ's Experts' Forum. Do you think there is room for both initiatives? Don't get me wrong, I do hope there is, but I'm afraid there might not be. Cheers, Nicola Musatti