Condition variables?

[Kris]

Condition-variables are also part of Tango. Cross platform and all :)

- Kris


"Roald Ribe" <rr.nospam at nospam.teikom.no> wrote in message 
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> Janice Caron wrote:
>> On 9/30/07, downs <default_357-line at yahoo.de> wrote:
>>> What does one need condition variables for?
>>> I'm honestly curious. I've written a few multithreaded programs in D
>>> and, so far, haven't needed them :)
>>
>> I would guess you're a Windows programmer?
>>
>> You don't need them in Windows. Windows has plenty of other mechanisms
>> for doing synchronisation. Condition variables is "the linux way".
>>
>> Still, I've never really got the hang of them either, so I'd love for
>> David to explain further.
>>
>> In any case, I don't think they could be put into Phobos except as a
>> wrapper around pthreads ... which doesn't exist on Windows. Oh what
>> joy.
>
> No?
>
> http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
>
> Roald