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General Category => General Discussion about just::thread => Topic started by: Anthony Williams on January 15, 2010, 11:06:34 AM

Title: ANNOUNCE: V1.3 of just::thread released for linux and Windows
Post by: Anthony Williams on January 15, 2010, 11:06:34 AM

I am pleased to announce the release of V1.3 of just::thread for both Ubuntu Linux and Windows.

This release includes the following changes:

• Support for the new std::async (http://www.stdthread.co.uk/doc/headers/future/async.html) function for launching asynchronous tasks with return values. This allows you to quickly and easily take advantage of the available hardware concurrency without excessive oversubscription.
• Support for the new std::atomic_future (http://www.stdthread.co.uk/doc/headers/future/atomic_future.html) class template which allows a single reference to a shared future value to be updated from multiple threads.
• Support for 64-bit Windows has been added to the Portability Bundle
• The <cstdatomic> header has been renamed to <atomic>
• The std::unique_future class template has been renamed to std::future (http://www.stdthread.co.uk/doc/headers/future/future.html)
• Plus various other small changes to bring the code into line with the current C++0x working draft (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n3000.pdf)