[M3devel] Status of threads for RC4?

[Tony Hosking]

On 8 Oct 2009, at 07:58, jay.krell at cornell.edu wrote:

> Posix was thought good; but openbsd not looked at,
> Win32 can hang. I'm still thinking. Current ideas: try plugging in  
> boost's condition variables, try "what java does". Boost looks  
> inefficient but I'm willing to take that at this point; java looks  
> deceptively simple - I looking at the right code and it has enough  
> features?
> Win32 may also have been this way "forever"?

Jay, I haven't had time to consider you most recent proposal...

Probably not until next week.

>
> - Jay (phone)
>
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Activity has ceased on the list and the CM3 repository, but I'm not
>> sure about the state of the thread system on Windows and POSIX
>> (here at least on OpenBSD).
>>
>> Are further improvements to be expected?
>> Do we know the reason for the non-termination of p007 on OpenBSD?
>>
>> A short update would be great.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Olaf
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