I am working on a multi-threaded broker example for proton C++ and I am becoming more and more convinced that it doesn't make much sense to try to do this without C++11.
There are two classes of issue: API: - inject() needs a way to represent a callback function. Without std::function this is very difficult. - for memory-safe multi-threaded we will need to expose shared_ptr/unique_ptr in the public API (the proton refcounting scheme is not thread safe.) Implementation: initially the multi-threaded broker impl will be independent of the single-threaded proton core but at some point we will want to provide some thread-safe toolkit as part of the C++ API, which internally needs atomics, mutexes etc. Originally we talked about keeping proton based on C++03. I'd like to propose we maintain that for the single-threaded but use C++11 in thread-safe and shared_ptr extensions. If someone wants to add a boost version of those extensions at some point that would be fine by me, but I plan to work initially with C++11. Thoughts? Alan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@qpid.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@qpid.apache.org
