Re: C++ primer on multithreading

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On Apr 20, 12:45 pm, "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejan...@mosteo.invalid>
wrote:

> I need to do some multi-threading stuff, in the sense that I will need the
> equivalent of a protected object with some conditional blocking entries.

This is not enough. What are you going to do with these entries? How
many threads will use the same entry? How many entries will be used at
a time by a single thread?

If you don't try to reimplement the Ada semantics in full (select
statement, requeue, anyone? :-) ), then conditional variables are
sufficient to implement typical multithreading patterns - this can be
nicely encapsulated by the "protected object" interface.

Boost is a good quality wrapper for system services and therefore
useful for portability, but brings a whole lot of dependencies with it
- it might or might not be of concern.

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