Hi everyone,

I've just started learning Ice & am eagerly absorbing all the great design ideas. It's quite a steep learning curve, but does seem very well thought out. The documentation is excellent.

One of the design decisions I have to make is to use the Ice or Boost threads library.

I know you can't easily comment on the implementation details of third party libraries, but at a glance they do seem similar (not surprising as they both wrap around the same underlying concept).

Is there any particular reason why I should use one or the other? In other words, are there benefits in other areas of Ice if I'm using Ice threads?

One benefit that does occur to me is that by using Ice threads, I would not be linking against 2 sets of thread libraries (since Ice internally would use it) and making my application unnecessarily larger. Other than this they seem very similar to me.

Thanks,
Jeff Gray