Re: [Boost-users] Thread creation overhead & efficiency

Hi James - My impression was that creating new threads on Windows can be quite expensive, but I don't have a lot of experience there. Creating threads in Linux using posix_threads (also via boost) seems to be quite fast. However, I have noticed that thread_groups are much slower (factor of 4) than using my own vectorboost::thread* and joining each individually. This is probably because I have only one controlling thread for my vector, so I don't need mutex. Brian On Jan 29, 2008 10:28 AM, James Sutherland wrote:

On 1/29/08 9:54 AM, "Sebastian Gesemann" wrote:

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You may want to try http://threadpool.sourceforge.net/

I was looking into that, but was wondering if anyone had experience to suggest that creation/destruction of threads was a significant overhead before I implement pools.

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