I was wondering what the reason was that all implementations of <thread>
and co. mentioned here seem to be by using the GNU implementation over
pthreads and adding a pthread implementation over Win32 threads, instead of
directly implementing these headers over Win32 threads. This seems like an
extra level of indirection, not to mention the whole issue with an extra
runtime dependency. I assume this is for one of the following three reasons:
1. It is not easily feasible to implement this over Win32 threads (I am not
to familiar with either the C++11 requirements, or with the Win32 API, so
don't know if this is true)
2. MinGW64, being a GCC port, prefers to keep as much GCC code as possible,
only adding the porting at the bottom-most layer. If so, while a "native"
implementation would be possible, it is not of interest to the MinGW64
community.
3. No one has bothered.
Which is it?
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