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Is GCC dying without threads support on Windows?
I need some opinion. GCC was always a very good compiler, but recently it is losing "appeal".
I have just found that on Windows GCC does not have std::thread support, forcing Windows users to use ...
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Drawing thread interaction
I'd like to draw (pen and pencils) threads interaction in a UML(-like) notation. I don't insist on UML, anything that is obvious to the reader should do.
I started with sequence diagrams, but I don't ...
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Best practise is not to poll…but isn't polling happening internally anyway when a thread calls wait()?
Say we have some thread that wants to check when another thread is finished its task. I have read that we should call a wait() type function that will make this thread wait until it receives a ...
