Thread APIs

[Kevlin Henney]

In message <422C38FB.5080704 at cs.oswego.edu>, Doug Lea <dl at cs.oswego.edu> 
writes
>
>Rather than leaving this for another 3day spurt 6months from
>now :-), we should at least see if the Executor/Future approach
>looks like it will succeed. How about:
>
>1. Kevlin: Propose a concrete API.
>
>2. Doug Schmidt and others: Confirm that this ...
>    * is easily supported in ACE, Boost, pthreads, Win32, uC++, ...
>    * covers all of the use cases worth covering. That is,
>        are there common concurrent programs/components that
>        cannot be written using the API?
>
>3. Rinse, repeat.

Excellent idea.

I am in the middle of a couple of things at the minute, so I will not be 
able to make much progress on this today or tomorrow, but I can start 
offering some ideas after that.

Kevlin
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