I find the QThread class does a good job of abstracting the thread work, especially if you're going to hop between Linux/pthreads to Win32-64/whateverthehellthe

I find the QThread class does a good job of abstracting the thread work, especially if you're going to hop between Linux/pthreads to Win32-64/whateverthehelltheyuse. And the signals/slots do a great job of marshalling data across the threads, which is where I've found a lot of C++ projects get into the weeds.