Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.thread] Simultaneously starting thread execution

From: Zeljko Vrba (zvrba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-07 15:19:14

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:53:43AM +0200, Ruediger Berlich wrote:
> 
> will be. In the middle of this sits a broker, which takes care of all
> communication between producers and consumers. Both need to register with
> the broker before being able to communicate with each other.
> 
Having a single broker for all communication between producers and consumers
defeats the point of having threads.  Eventually, the broker will become the
bottleneck (serialization point).  Or did I misunderstand the first sentence?

>
> has been registered (they are started by the broker). Hence I need to have
> a mechanism that blocks all consumers that have been registered before the
> first producer, until such time that the first items to be processed are
> available.
> 
Condition variable?