<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Acknowledgments</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"> <link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Boost C++ Libraries BoostBook Documentation Subset"> <link rel="up" href="../thread.html" title="Chapter 21. Thread"> <link rel="prev" href="time.html" title="Date and Time Requirements"> <link rel="next" href="../boost_tr1.html" title="Chapter 22. Boost.TR1"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="time.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../thread.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="../boost_tr1.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" title="Acknowledgments"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> <a name="thread.acknowledgements"></a><a class="link" href="acknowledgements.html" title="Acknowledgments"> Acknowledgments</a> </h2></div></div></div> <p> The original implementation of <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Thread</strong></span> was written by William Kempf, with contributions from numerous others. This new version initially grew out of an attempt to rewrite <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Thread</strong></span> to William Kempf's design with fresh code that could be released under the Boost Software License. However, as the C++ Standards committee have been actively discussing standardizing a thread library for C++, this library has evolved to reflect the proposals, whilst retaining as much backwards-compatibility as possible. </p> <p> Particular thanks must be given to Roland Schwarz, who contributed a lot of time and code to the original <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Thread</strong></span> library, and who has been actively involved with the rewrite. The scheme for dividing the platform-specific implementations into separate directories was devised by Roland, and his input has contributed greatly to improving the quality of the current implementation. </p> <p> Thanks also must go to Peter Dimov, Howard Hinnant, Alexander Terekhov, Chris Thomasson and others for their comments on the implementation details of the code. </p> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2007 -8 Anthony Williams<p> Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>) </p> </div></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="time.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../thread.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="../boost_tr1.html"><img src="../../../doc/html/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> </body> </html>