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by scott_s 5144 days ago
Read Hans Boehm's paper "Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Libray": http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf
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It would have been nice if instead of presumptuously demanding the parent read a long article (assuming without evidence that he knows nothing about such issues) you had briefly explained why the existing state of affairs with respect to C++ concurrency is inadequate and why these features are actually helpful.
That is why God invented abstracts...