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NO support for Windows kernel synchronization objects and named synchronization objects?

sorcer76
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Are these constructs supported? I didn't see any analogous structures.
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robert-reed
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Both Windows kernel synch objects and named synchs suggest synchronization at the process level. Threading Building Blocks is a paradigm for (light-weight) thread management, aimed at minimizing the long throw of kernel accesses and maximizing the local use of data residing in the cache hierarchy. Adding process-level synchronization might tempt its use, probably to the detriment of local data retention. To this end, TBB is no mere thread library wrapper, but a different thing altogether, a task scheduler that uses threads to maximize concurrency, combined with a variety of other tools that support this cause of localization and safe thread synchronization.
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