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TinyThreadPool Library
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Introduction

This library implements a thread pool based on POSIX threads. The pool
has a set of p threads available after initialisation and executes any
given tasks on the first free thread in the pool. After finishing the
execution, the now idle thread is again available for other tasks.

The reason for keeping the execution threads active the whole time is
the time for starting a new thread, which can be rather large compared
to the time for the simple assignment of a tasks to a thread. Especially
for small tasks, the overhead due to thread creation can be visible or
event dominant.

Installation

you can use Eclipse CDT open this project.In "config.mk" are compiler
definitions for Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.
Other systems should also work.

After entering "make" (GNU make !), the library "libthrpool.a" should reside
in the main directory.

Unfortunately, no "make install" is provided. To compile your own programs
you have to pass

-I<path_to_thrpool>/src -L<path_to_thrpool> -lthrpool

to your compiler.

Usage

In the "test/" sub directory, some examples for the usage of the thread pool
are given.

License

see License file

Acknowledgements

rok@mis.mpg.de
Schindlerlee@gmail.com
sumeet.chhetri@gmail.com
http://www.eclipse.org/
http://pocoproject.org/