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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

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