Re: Boost.Threads - name of the "thread" type

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-06-22 09:43:46

--- In boost_at_y..., "Reich, Shalom" <Shalom.Reich_at_g...> wrote:
> > From: williamkempf_at_h... [mailto:williamkempf_at_h...]
> 
> > > But it is also not unknown to create a fixed size pool of Thread
> > > objects, and then start them later on demand.
> > 
> > I'm curious as to why.  This just doesn't seem like the best 
solution 
> > to any problem.
> >  
> 
> Eliminate the overhead of thread creation and destruction.  The 
usual 
> approach is to start the threads in the pool and pass the "Command" 
> objects.  The thread then invokes the run() or execute() on the 
Command.

This is not the same argument being made.  I fully understand the 
need for thread pools, but threads in a thread pool are not created 
in a two phase construction pattern.  Greg was describing a pattern 
in which thread objects (as opposed to threads) were created enmasse 
and later "started".

Bill Kempf