> I am in the process of uploading a GCC 4.7 build with posix threading > (this means all the C++11 multithreading functionality in <thread> and > <mutex> should work). > > This build is "experimental", mostly because it's ABI incompatible > with my other builds. Every C++ and some C applications will > implicitly depend on the libwinpthread dll. Don't worry, it won't eat > your computer. One more DLL won't kill you. > > I (and I imagine Kai) will be very interested in performance and > general usability information. I am glad to see winpthread-based implementation. Based on limited evidence, I have the experience of timed mutexes being particularly slow on windows, compared to Linux (via boost::threads, which IIRC uses pthreads on Linux and Win32 API on windows). I am looking formward to some real performance comparisons, which I am not able to do myself.
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