I guess this mailing list is as good a place as any to start this
discussion.
Eventually it will boil down to someone writing the hard code (as I am not
near capable enough). I can, though, get some info and gather docs for a
willing party.
The thing is: GCC 4.4+ has provided std::thread for POSIX platforms, making
for a very easy way of using multithreading in c++, using the upcoming
standard (which is now falsely named C++0x, like it's not 2010 yet ;) ).
Mingw is falling behind, because this low-level thing needs a
platform-dependent implementation. As John E. already mentioned, using
pthread-w32 is not a good choice. Easy, but sloppy.
Therefore I hope a person with enough c++ and win32 threading knowledge will
implement it through native win32 threads. I have already gotten some info
and docs ready:
1. boost::thread is probably quite like std::thread, as is almost 40% of the
new standard:
http://live.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/boost/thread/win32/thread.hpp
2. pthread implementation of the GCC gthreads used as a backend for
std::thread: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2008-08/txt00033.txt
3. MSDN win32 threading API, which I hope isn't to crappy to be wrapped by
std::thread:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684254%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
4. A paid implementation of std::thread, just::thread, which will probably
not provide anything helpful: http://www.stdthread.co.uk/
This is an exciting new feature, and I would hate MinGW to get behind.
Ruben
PS: in an extension, perhaps OpenMP can be rewritten to also use
std::thread, once available, to drop even that pthread dependency.
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