On 01/05/2017 12:47 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote: > If gnulib really wants to make concurrency simpler, than it should look > at higher-level abstractions first. Especially parallelism. But maybe > it should then just wait for what C++ specifies, or contribute to that
I'm afraid this overestimates the amount of development resources we have. Gnulib is contributed to only fitfully, and it mostly consists of reasonably simple portability hacks. It has to be that way, otherwise package developers won't understand and trust it. It's not a suitable place to do concurrency research. Concurrency with shared memory is a hard problem, and the C++ (and C) folks have messed it up for decades. Although they may get something reasonable eventually, in the meantime Gnulib will probably prefer to limp along with something on the safer side of the axis.
