Re: C++ primer on multithreading

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

On Apr 20, 3:04 pm, "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejan...@mosteo.invalid> wrote:

> Basically I need a protected queue with blocking semantics; several
> writters, one consumer.

This is easy to implement and for the above you will need only one
mutex and one condvar.

This is what I have quickly found on Google:

http://www.quantnet.com/cplusplus-multithreading-boost/

See especially 18.11, but I guess the whole page is worth reading.

> Also more generally, I wondered too if there's some ready-to-use protected
> stuff in C++ that spares me dealing with mutexes to emulate a synchronized
> interface.

No and the (current) C++ culture is that this stuff is supported by
libraries, not by language. As you see with the code on the above
page, it might not be as elegant as in Ada, but still not that
terribly difficult to grasp.

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