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   On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:10:11 PM UTC+1, Bobby wrote:   
   > I'd like to get some opinions on the following statement I read   
   > in a recent article on C++11:   
   >   
   > [translated from foreign language:]   
   > "The C++11 support for multithreading is rather obsolete. People   
   > for decades lived without it. Therefore many solutions came up, like:   
   > OpenMP, pthreads, Boost.Thread, native OS libs, ..."   
   >   
   > The article assumes that most projects/companies will stick to   
   > their current solutions.   
      
   Likely they should. Threading is tricky anyhow, and risk of a change   
   needs to be smaller than a possible benefit. that's hard to justify on   
   an established codebase.   
      
   For green-field projects, situation is entirely different though...   
      
   G.   
      
      
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