Hi Everyone, Has there been any development with regards to a working, portable Boost.Thread based Thread Pool library? Personally I've been using the following sample idiom for achieving what a thread pool is supposed to be accomplishing -- and I'm wondering (aloud) whether there are any existing implementations out there that rely solely on Boost.Thread. Currently, the following code snippet requires Boost.Asio, but I'm not sure if there's something that may be distilled from the recurring pattern below: { using namespace boost::asio; using namespace boost; io_service process_queue; shared_ptr<io_service::work> sentinel(new io_service::work(process_queue)); thread_group processor_threads; for(unsigned int spawn_counter = THREAD_COUNT; spawn_counter > 0; --spawn_counter) processor_threads.create_thread( bind(&io_service::work, &process_queue) ); // add all void nullary functors and post them here process_queue.post(function_object); // once all the work has been queued, remove the sentinel sentinel.reset(); processor_threads.join_all(); } Will something like this be useful as a utility library? Insights, pointers, and suggestions would be very much appreciated. Have a great day everyone! -- Dean Michael C. Berris Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc. [http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/] [mikhailberis@gmail.com] [+63 928 7291459] [+1 408 4049523]