13 Feb
2004
13 Feb
'04
6:23 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:36:59 -0500 Douglas Gregor <gregod@cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
From the programmer's perspective, it is an alternative model: you don't need to show them the threads underneath, you just need to show them the high-level interface.
Check out the doxygen documentation page for ACE_Task (http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/Doxygen/Beta/html/ace/a01703.html), which provides the ability to encapsulate the behaviour inside a class (for added benefit the task can run in the main thread, or it can run in a separated thread just as easily), and provides a message queue (appropriately locked for separate threads) for communication. I use it quite a bit, and it is quite flexible...