On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Eric J. Holtman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:eric@holtmans.com">eric@holtmans.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">



  

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On 7/26/2010 9:37 AM, Internet Retard wrote:
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All at once? What if I have millions of tasks rather than a few? I want
to be working on 2 tasks all the time. If my queue is not empty, then
as a thread ends, it sees there are more tasks in the queue and gets
one.<br>
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You only launch *two* tasks.   They keep going back to the<br>
queue to get new work when they finished their current item.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>You might want to look at the threadpool project:<br>  <a href="http://threadpool.sourceforge.net/">http://threadpool.sourceforge.net/</a><br>This is built on boost::thread and has a very nice implementation for queuing work for threads.  It has various types of queues (priority, fifo, etc).<br>
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