Re: [boost] Re: Functions as Filters (was Program Reuse ...)

From: Frank van Dijk (f.v.dijk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-09 13:24:35

hi

christopher diggins <cdiggins_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 
> >> 7) allow threading of functions
> >
> > Do you mean this: support filters which think they are processing an
> > entire
> > stream at once, but really their threads are waiting on some
> > syncronization
> > object whenever there is no more input available, or output buffers
> > are full?
> 
> What I want is to allow two proc_as_filter objects to be executed
> simultaneously, so that this code:
> 
> proc_as_filter(Proc1) | proc_as_filter(Proc2)
> 
> Runs optimally on a multi-processor machine. I don't know how hard
> this is, I am quite inexperienced in multithreaded code.

Proc1 and Proc2 will be using the global cin and cout objects
simultaneously if the are run in parallel.

mvrgr frank