André Offringa wrote:
Hi all,
I seem to have come across a producer/consumer situation a few times now, and everytime I do, I seem to want a slightly different functionality for a bounded buffer-kind of class that is not generally provided. I am looking for such a class that is also efficient for large amounts of data, and so I wonder if there does already exists a class in boost to efficiently push work between producers and consumers when they are running in different threads, i.e., that is thread safe. Asio seems to have a lot of communicating mechanisms, but I did not yet come across such a mechanism (pipe/channel/lane/unidirectional stream/bounded buffer... I'll call it a 'lane' for now) between two threads.
If it does not exist yet in boost, I wonder if there is a general interest for such a class.
I used an example from circular_buffer library. Worked great and only a few minutes to insert into my app. Robert Ramey