Re: [boost] [threadpool] relation with TR2 proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [threadpool] relation with TR2 proposal
From: k-oli_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-09-16 05:48:04

Am Dienstag, 16. September 2008 07:20:33 schrieb vicente.botet:
> It's my _guess_ also. I think that the Boost threadpool library must
> integrate child-tasks and task stealing between worker threads.

I'm currently working on a work-stealing strategy.

> Some references on fork-join framework for the reader:
> article "A Java Fork/Join Framework"
> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/papers/fj.pdf

Fork/Join uses work-stealing - you need a kind of synchronization between all 
worker threads to finish one task (joining subtasks).
I think this is not in the scope of threadpool.

regards,
Oliver