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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: C++ primer on multithreading
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Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> 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.

I'll do, thanks.

> 
>> 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.

Boost is it then. Thanks to everyone!

Alex.

> 
> --
> Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com