[cpp-threads] Re: Thread API interface tweaks

[Herb Sutter]

I didn't realize Pete's message had gone to the list, or I would have cc'd my response to the same group:

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Pete wrote:
  This is, of course, library design by committee without pre-existing practice.

Actually, I was reporting experience with actual (if internal) practice of a library designed by me and being used experimentally internally. It compiles all the code examples I gave, modulo typos. I've also gratefully taken a bunch of external feedback over the past year at a number of talks and presentations that shows such code.

Of course, there's a bunch of shipping practice, and a lot of futures libraries are strikingly similar. My little one happens to be similar to the published/shipping ones (not least Java 5 and 6), though with some additional features. It also happens to be similar to parts Howard's proposal, but then Howard and I have talked a little so maybe I've polluted him. :-)

Herb

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> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:07 AM
> To: C++ threads standardisation
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> Eric Niebler; Lawrence Crowl
> Subject: Re: [cpp-threads] Re: Thread API interface tweaks
>
> Pete Becker wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is, of course, library design by committee without
> pre-existing
> > practice.
> >
>
> Well, you are of course free to lift the Future and Executor
> designs from java.util.concurrent, which have by now
> undergone a lot of experience, and include various small
> touch-up API changes in Java 6 in accord with experience
> since Java 5. See:
>    http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrency-interest/index.html
>
> -Doug
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