Is PThread a good choice for multi-platorm C/C++ multi-threading program?
- by RogerV
Been doing mostly Java and smattering of .NET for last five years and haven't written any significant C or C++ during that time. So have been away from that scene for a while.
If I want to write a C or C++ program today that does some multi-threading and is source code portable across Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix - is PThread a good choice?
The C or C++ code won't be doing any GUI, so won't need to worry with any of that.
For the Windows platform, I don't want to bring a lot of Unix baggage, though, in terms of unix emulation runtime libraries. Would prefer a PThread API for Windows that is a thin-as-possible wrapper over existing Windows threading APIs.
ADDENDUM EDIT:
Am leaning toward going with
boost:thread - I also want to be able
to use C++ try/catch exception
handling too. And even though my
program will be rather minimal and not
particularly OOPish, I like to
encapsulate using class and namespace
- as opposed to C disembodied functions.
