----- Original Message ----- From: "David Abrahams" <dave@boostpro.com> To: "Anthony Williams" <anthony.ajw@gmail.com>; "boost" <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:10 AM Subject: [boost] Differences between Boost.Thread and std?

Hi All,

Is there a document somewhere describing the differences between Boost.Thread and what's being proposed for C++0x?

I'm not aware of such a document. I have proposed to Anthony and Ion a plan to make Boost.Thread and Boost.Interprocess(sync part) more uniform and closer to the proposed C++0x. I gues we will get it once Boost.Chrono and Boost.Move are included into Boost. The following doesn't pretend to be exhaustive, but expect would give you a good idea. Additions of Boost.Thread * thread interruption * Shared mutexes and locks * Thread groups * lock and try_lock applied to range of Mutexes * thread_specific_ptr * future callbacks Missing or different in Boost.Thread: * system_error exceptions versus specific Boost::Thread exception * even if Boost Thread provides move semantics, it should be great to use Boost.Move in a uniform way. * use of chrono interface versus ptime * cv_status * std::atomic_future/std::shared_future versus boost:future * thread_local Stefan Strasser proposed a static_thread_specific_ptr class that should be a closer emmulation of thread local storage than boost::thread_specific_ptr. Best, Vicente