8 May
2007
8 May
'07
2:03 p.m.
On Mon, 07 May 2007 20:06:39 +0300, "Yuval Ronen" <ronen_yuval@yahoo.com> said:
Do you think that this functionality (of thread_pool/dispatchers/asio::io_service) should be in Boost.Thread? IMHO, it sounds as if it has more to do with "multi-threading policy" than "I/O (sync or async)".
The run()/post() functionality of io_service cannot be moved out of asio, because the implementation of it is tied to the underlying asynchronous I/O mechanism. However, I'm sure you could distil a "dispatcher" concept from it and reimplement this concept to provide a range of different execution guarantees (e.g. FIFO, LIFO etc). Cheers, Chris