Re: [boost] [Boost.Thread][GSoC] Boost.Thread executors proposal

Le 13/03/14 04:59, Ian Forbes a écrit :

Hi,

Here is my GSoC proposal for working on the scheduled executors classes. It can be found here: www.cs.mcgill.ca/~iforbe/

This proposal mainly deals with the implementation of classes extending the `scheduled_executor` interface. I have already written thread pool implementations with very similar functionality to the ones proposed.

I feel that the current proposal could use a little bit of touching up so please feel free to leave comments/criticisms.

I would also be willing to take on any other work related to executors such the the dynamic/work-stealing thread pool implementation or the parallel algorithms library and add it into my proposal.

Hi, I like your proposal on scheduled_executor and possibly extend it to a priority thread pool. I would let the work-stealing outside the proposal. Just to note that the closure would not be a std::function as this class doesn't accept a movable only function. Boost.Thread would include (version 1.56) a boost::executors::work as a type-erased class for closures. I'm looking for a different approach respect to scheduled work of the N3785 proposal. First provide in addition a static polymorphic interface. The template functions submit_at and submit_after would accept any chrono `time_point` and `duration`. Second, provide an adaptor that wraps an scheduled executor and makes it a polymorphic one. Third, provide an adaptor that wraps an executor, manage the time based operations using a specific thread and forward all the operations to the wrapped executor. What do you think of this approach? Best, Vicente