Pthreads in Visual C++

Question

I\'m experimenting with multithreading in Windows and was wondering whether I should

• use Win32 API
• use POSIX Threads for Windows

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Answer 1

If you're going to do much Windows programming, it will pay to learn the basic Win32 threading constructs: critical sections, interlocked functions, CreateThread, WaitFor*Object, etc. These aren't hard to understand, and they translate transparently to equivalent objects in other threading frameworks.

However, for more advanced threading constructs such as semaphores, events, etc., I would use the pthreads library, since the documentation on those tends to be clearer and examples more abundant.