From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-06-01 12:33:51
On 6/1/23 15:28, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>>> These are appropriate for Core. No objections from me. Andrey/Peter?
>>
>> I would rather have those, along with a spin_mutex implementation, in
>> Boost.Thread, but I realize Peter wouldn't want to depend on it in
>> Boost.SmartPtr.
>>
>> Incidentally, we have a spin_mutex (with another pause implementation)
>> in Boost.Sync. Peter, probably, wouldn't want to depend on it either,
>> but perhaps it would be suitable for other libraries. I could start
>> cleaning it up for a review, time permitting.
>>
>> Re. moving those components to Boost.Core, I don't like it, but I can be
>> overruled.
>
> The motivation here is that Unordered has now acquired a dependency
> on SmartPtr, just for those primitives, which is seen as undesirable.
>
> Putting them somewhere else, such as Thread, solves nothing, as a
> dependency on Thread for those is much worse.
>
> The alternative to moving them to Core is Unordered containing its own
> local copy.
That everyone depends on Core doesn't mean we should pile everything in it.