9 Jun
2008
9 Jun
'08
11:53 a.m.
For what would be 'task-stealing' be usefull? Wouldn't be one task-queue on which worker threads are waiting be sufficient? Polling of one thread in task-queues of other threads seams to be expensive. Oliver
Johan Torp:
Does existing threadpools (such as java.util.concurrency.ExecutorService) offer thread re-use and if so is it considered an success?
Doug Lea says that ThreadPoolExecutor doesn't steal threads, but the upcoming ForkJoin framework does. ForkJoin is described in
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/papers/fj.pdf
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