Re: [Boost-users] [thread] boost::thread automatically detached when thread terminates?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [thread] boost::thread automatically detached when thread terminates?
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-12 09:33:06

On 09/12/2010 02:55 PM, Boris Schaeling wrote:
> I want a worker thread to terminate if there is nothing to do. If 
> there is something to do again and the worker thread has terminated I 
> need to create a new one. Now I wonder if I can use boost::thread to 
> detect whether the thread is running or not.
>
> Boris
>
You might also want to think about a thread pool: A number of worker 
threads which do something like this:

while(true)
{
    wait_for_task;
    process_task;
}

Rather simple to implement and more effective (I think) than starting a 
new thread for each task. It also allows you to control the number of 
total worker threads easily. It is also simple to keep track of the 
number of working/waiting worker threads.

Regards,

Roland