Re: [Boost-users] Using boost::thread to keep all cores busy

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Using boost::thread to keep all cores busy
From: Eric J. Holtman (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-26 10:41:01

On 7/26/2010 9:37 AM, Internet Retard wrote:
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>
> All at once? What if I have millions of tasks rather than a few? I 
> want to be working on 2 tasks all the time. If my queue is not empty, 
> then as a thread ends, it sees there are more tasks in the queue and 
> gets one.
>

You only launch *two* tasks.   They keep going back to the
queue to get new work when they finished their current item.