Hi Manuel
The fifo_scheduler is limited to one execution at a time. I would like a schedule object, which can handle many processors in many threads at the same time. Lika a threadpool, where the threads takeover a fsm, when it has events posted and processes them then. But it should of course only one thread at a time process events from one machine.
Because of exactly this constraint, I believe such a thread pool servicing a single state_machine would actually slow down event processing (because of the locking/signalling overhead; dispatching one event takes a few microseconds, tops). The only possible advantage I see is with load balancing. E.g. when you have to limit yourself to e.g. 8 threads servicing thousands of FSMs, of which only very few are busy processing events at the same time.
Maybe someone has done this and can show me his code? Or tell me if this is even possible?
Everything is possible, but I doubt that such a scheduler is of interest to many people. Also, it is not exactly the main focus of this library. fifo_scheduler & friends were always intended as a minimal but working "example". I hope that a future boost lib will offer types that would render fifo_scheduler obsolete and maybe offer something like you want. HTH & Regards, -- Andreas Huber When replying by private email, please remove the words spam and trap from the address shown in the header.