Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   The reason why Boost is used is that it's portable to most systems.
> Pthreads can only be used in posix systems which implement it (if I'm
> not mistaken, most Windows compilers don't). OpenMP is a rather new
> standard and few compilers support it.

So maybe on Posix systems boost just wraps the Pthreads mutexes, thereby adding
some more overhead? Or is the difference much worse?

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