Threads: first milestone completed

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Gentlemen,


I've been really swamped until now, too swamped to give an account of 
the presentation I made on behalf of the group for adding threads to C++.

To characterize how it went, I'll quote Herb Sutter, ISO C++ Convenor 
(whom I also include on the receiver list to confirm veracity!): "One of 
the best presentations I've attended in the past 5 years, and certainly 
your best."

Herb also added that I can quote him in telling you that "The C++ 
Standardization Committee is _insanely interested_ in this proposal."

Things indeed went as good as in one of those good dreams when you can 
fly wherever you want, and you can predict the future and prepare in 
advance for it - both at the same time :o). The puny slides we've had 
worked extremely well; like magic, for each of the questions in the 
audience, there was some bullet on a slide addressing it. I repeatedly 
got asked about how the "happens-before" rule works in various 
circumstances, and to my own amazement, I could answer them. Then, 
people who understood started to explain things to the others... it was 
great.

So, to cut the brag short, aside from the good news there's "we gotta 
get to work" news. There is no formal deadline, but a good milestone is 
the next committee meeting, which will be in six months from now.

What I believe we need to produce is two papers. One would describe and 
explain the memory model as adapted to C++. The second would be a 
collection of "deltas" to the current standard, specifying what text 
needs to go into what sections replacing what text.

I hope those of you who have participated to the similar effort for Java 
will chime in and structure this work. That includes logistics, who does 
what, the review process, everything. So... please respond!


Andrei
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