Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Eric Meijer wrote:

> Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> Thanks Eric
>>
>> I was also thinking to use the boost package. I don't like it's heavy and
>> my app would depend on it too.
>>
>>   
> As mentioned by Roger Leigh, you only really "pay" for what you are using.
> Why are you worried by the dependence on boost?
> What I like about it is that boost really is the place where new
> libraries for upcoming C++ standards are developed are tested.  As a
> result boost is really widely used, well regarded in the C++ community,
> and consequently high quality.  It is also likely that C++ threads will
> look a lot like the boost implementation when they arrive in the standard.
>> So there is no easy way around pthreads from C++ except boost?
>>   
> As suggested by Roger, you could use the pthreads directly.  I prefer
> the C++ interface from boost.
> 
> 

Agreed. I'm just not that familiar to C++. I like objects and I'm wondering
how threads are implemented that's all.

:-)

I didn't expect it being this way honestly.

I understand one good approach would be libboost.

Thanks for that and kind regards