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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
To: "K. Frank" <kfrank29 dot c at gmail dot com>
Cc: mingw-w64-public at lists dot sourceforge dot net, "libstdc++" <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>, MinGW Users List <mingw-users at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:09:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:04 AM, K. Frank <kfrank29.c@gmail.com> wrote:

> Please, let's have mingw-w64 (and mingw) users chime in. ?Do folks
> prefer one approach (native vs. pthreads) to implementing <thread>
> to the other? ?Is there enough interest in both approaches that it
> makes sense to take away manpower from other issues to develop
> and support both?

My preference is for native model.  The C++11 committee went to
extraordinary length to craft support for native model.  I expect a
Windows programmer to mix C++11 code with Windows concurrency
facility.

-- Gaby

References:
- Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Jonathan Wakely
- Re: Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: K. Frank
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Jonathan Wakely
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: Kai Tietz
- Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Thoughts on supporting the C++11 thread library on Windows
  - From: K. Frank

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