On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 21:14 +0000, jcup...@gmail.com wrote: > Yes, libdispatch is a nice mechanism. If anyone's not come across it, > it provides dynamically resizeable threadpools with a central manager > which adjusts pools globally to keep the system from bogging down (and > a few other bells and whistles, or that's my understanding anyway). > > But it seems to me that we have a more immediate need: gthread has a > threadpools, but no way to pick a reasonable size for a pool. > > I guess existing cross-platform applications and libraries which use > threadpools must all have some duplicated code to pick a default pool > size*. If we centralise this, we could perhaps add some standard > mechanisms, like a --g-threadpool-size=N argument, or a > G_THREADPOOL_SIZE environment variable.
Not sure if you've seen this, but Christian Hergert has an interesting library called iris that includes thread and task scheduling. http://git.dronelabs.com/iris / Cody _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
