[signals2] documentation on signals vs signals2
Is there documentation on when signals2 should be used over signals? If there is any time that signals is a better choice than signals2? I presume either signals2 is incompatible with code written for signals, or signals2 is inferior to signals in some cases, but this is not documented anywhere.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 May 2009, Ross Levine wrote:
Is there documentation on when signals2 should be used over signals?
The main feature of Signals2 over Signals is thread-safety. Another reason to use it is that the original Signals library will probably be deprecated and removed eventually.
If there is any time that signals is a better choice than signals2?
The original Signals library has more real-world testing, since 1.39 is the first boost release including Signals2. It probably also has better support for old compilers.
I presume either signals2 is incompatible with code written for signals, or signals2 is inferior to signals in some cases, but this is not documented anywhere.
There is a porting section in the documentation that describes the differences: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/doc/html/signals2/porting.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn+8HsACgkQ5vihyNWuA4UxVgCeMX3+8epwIaI8g34hR9llFrh/ ED4AoJYW9U4sntBGQmugmDfnRjsCeLtz =XOdA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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