[Lmuse-developer] question: c++11 requirement

[Robert J. <spa...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

I'm doing some research into exchanging our current thread communication
(since pipe/poll isn't so portable to Windows mostly) and I stumbled on
this:
https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue

Which may or may not be a sweet solution, I'm mucking around and trying
things mostly.

Anyway, this queue, and most other solutions I found, seems to rely on the
new <atomic> stuff in c++11 so I thought I would ask your opinion on
raising the requirements to a compiler that supports c++11 (atleast
partially)?

Historically I guess we have been reluctant to use new stuff but then again
c++11, or even c++0x has been around for a while atleast.
I see this queue requires gcc4.7, as there is apparently a bug in 4.6,
which puts us at sometime 2012.
Is this a limiting requirement in your opinion?

Regards,
Robert