Re: [boost] Looking for Thread Pool Library

From: Alex Ott (alexott_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-31 10:20:00

Hello Michael

There is working implementation at http://threadpool.sourceforge.net/
- it already fixed to match new boost.thread.
I had used it not so far for my tests, and it's works fine

On 10/31/07, Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Has there been any development with regards to a working, portable
> Boost.Thread based Thread Pool library?
>
> Personally I've been using the following sample idiom for achieving
> what a thread pool is supposed to be accomplishing -- and I'm
> wondering (aloud) whether there are any existing implementations out
> there that rely solely on Boost.Thread. Currently, the following code
> snippet requires Boost.Asio, but I'm not sure if there's something
> that may be distilled from the recurring pattern below:
>
> {
>   using namespace boost::asio;
>   using namespace boost;
>
>   io_service process_queue;
>   shared_ptr<io_service::work> sentinel(new io_service::work(process_queue));
>
>   thread_group processor_threads;
>   for(unsigned int spawn_counter = THREAD_COUNT;
>     spawn_counter > 0;
>     --spawn_counter)
>       processor_threads.create_thread(
>         bind(&io_service::work, &process_queue)
>       );
>
>   // add all void nullary functors and post them here
>   process_queue.post(function_object);
>
>   // once all the work has been queued, remove the sentinel
>   sentinel.reset();
>   processor_threads.join_all();
>
> }
>
> Will something like this be useful as a utility library? Insights,
> pointers, and suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>
> Have a great day everyone!
>
> --
> Dean Michael C. Berris
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