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7 | <section id="thread.acknowledgements" |
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8 | last-revision="$Date: 2005/10/16 14:37:34 $"> |
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9 | <title>Acknowledgements</title> |
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10 | <para>William E. Kempf was the architect, designer, and implementor of |
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11 | &Boost.Threads;.</para> |
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12 | <para>Mac OS Carbon implementation written by Mac Murrett.</para> |
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13 | <para>Dave Moore provided initial submissions and further comments on the |
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14 | <code>barrier</code> |
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15 | and |
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16 | <code>thread_pool</code> |
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17 | classes.</para> |
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18 | <para>Important contributions were also made by Jeremy Siek (lots of input |
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19 | on the design and on the implementation), Alexander Terekhov (lots of input |
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20 | on the Win32 implementation, especially in regards to boost::condition, as |
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21 | well as a lot of explanation of POSIX behavior), Greg Colvin (lots of input |
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22 | on the design), Paul Mclachlan, Thomas Matelich and Iain Hanson (for help |
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23 | in trying to get the build to work on other platforms), and Kevin S. Van |
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24 | Horn (for several updates/corrections to the documentation).</para> |
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25 | <para>Mike Glassford finished changes to &Boost.Threads; that were begun |
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26 | by William Kempf and moved them into the main CVS branch. |
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27 | He also addressed a number of issues that were brought up on the Boost |
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28 | developer's mailing list and provided some additions and changes to the |
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29 | read_write_mutex and related classes.</para> |
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30 | <para>The documentation was written by William E. Kempf. Beman Dawes |
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31 | provided additional documentation material and editing. |
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32 | Mike Glassford finished William Kempf's conversion of the documentation to |
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33 | BoostBook format and added a number of new sections.</para> |
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34 | <para>Discussions on the boost.org mailing list were essential in the |
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35 | development of &Boost.Threads; |
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36 | . As of August 1, 2001, participants included Alan Griffiths, Albrecht |
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37 | Fritzsche, Aleksey Gurtovoy, Alexander Terekhov, Andrew Green, Andy Sawyer, |
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38 | Asger Alstrup Nielsen, Beman Dawes, Bill Klein, Bill Rutiser, Bill Wade, |
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39 | Branko èibej, Brent Verner, Craig Henderson, Csaba Szepesvari, |
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40 | Dale Peakall, Damian Dixon, Dan Nuffer, Darryl Green, Daryle Walker, David |
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41 | Abrahams, David Allan Finch, Dejan Jelovic, Dietmar Kuehl, Douglas Gregor, |
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42 | Duncan Harris, Ed Brey, Eric Swanson, Eugene Karpachov, Fabrice Truillot, |
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43 | Frank Gerlach, Gary Powell, Gernot Neppert, Geurt Vos, Ghazi Ramadan, Greg |
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44 | Colvin, Gregory Seidman, HYS, Iain Hanson, Ian Bruntlett, J Panzer, Jeff |
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45 | Garland, Jeff Paquette, Jens Maurer, Jeremy Siek, Jesse Jones, Joe Gottman, |
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46 | John (EBo) David, John Bandela, John Maddock, John Max Skaller, John |
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47 | Panzer, Jon Jagger , Karl Nelson, Kevlin Henney, KG Chandrasekhar, Levente |
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48 | Farkas, Lie-Quan Lee, Lois Goldthwaite, Luis Pedro Coelho, Marc Girod, Mark |
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49 | A. Borgerding, Mark Rodgers, Marshall Clow, Matthew Austern, Matthew Hurd, |
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50 | Michael D. Crawford, Michael H. Cox , Mike Haller, Miki Jovanovic, Nathan |
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51 | Myers, Paul Moore, Pavel Cisler, Peter Dimov, Petr Kocmid, Philip Nash, |
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52 | Rainer Deyke, Reid Sweatman, Ross Smith, Scott McCaskill, Shalom Reich, |
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53 | Steve Cleary, Steven Kirk, Thomas Holenstein, Thomas Matelich, Trevor |
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54 | Perrin, Valentin Bonnard, Vesa Karvonen, Wayne Miller, and William |
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55 | Kempf.</para> |
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56 | <para>Apologies for anyone inadvertently missed.</para> |
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57 | </section> |
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58 | |
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