Then after a few years, work on Java memory model has found a good solution. Read: Foundations of the C++ concurrency memory model [based on the Java memory model]
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2008/HPL-2008-56.pdf
How fugly can this be for all you C++ wannabe fanguys??? (Phun intended!)
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Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library. That means pthreads is bad. Read: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf
Then after a few years, work on Java memory model has found a good solution. Read: Foundations of the C++ concurrency memory model [based on the Java memory model] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2008/HPL-2008-56.pdf
How fugly can this be for all you C++ wannabe fanguys??? (Phun intended!)