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On 03/05/2010 09:59 PM, Joe Martin wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> For this scenario a thread pool with fixed size seems sufficient.
>>
>
> Very good. This works quite nicely as well.
>
> Just wondering, are there any performance benefits of using one method
> over the other?

Which other method are you referring to?

Kind regards

robert

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Caleb Clausen wrote:
> Yes. Threads use memory (quite a lot of it, in fact). Mostly this goes
> to the thread's stack. Limiting the number of threads saves quite a
> bit of memory. I'm not sure there's any improvement in the amount of
> cpu time either way, other than perhaps some fewer cache misses
> resulting from using less memory.

Thanks! I figured this was the case.
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Robert Klemme wrote:
> Which other method are you referring to?

Well my original thinking was to create a thread for every single item I
pass to the program. Caleb answered this for me in that threads
themselves are quite heavy, so it further leads me to go with your
solution which creates a low number of threads and re-uses them until
the queue is empty. It seems much more simple and effecient than my
original plan.
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2010/3/8 Joe Martin <>:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> Which other method are you referring to?
>
> Well my original thinking was to create a thread for every single item I
> pass to the program. =A0Caleb answered this for me in that threads
> themselves are quite heavy, so it further leads me to go with your
> solution which creates a low number of threads and re-uses them until
> the queue is empty. =A0It seems much more simple and effecient than my
> original plan.

Ah, OK. Then I was just confused because you had used the term
"thread pool" in your original posting. That term is commonly use for
exactly the type of solution I posted (fixed or at least limited
number of threads which get their tasks from some form of queue). You
probably weren't aware of this.

Kind regards

robert


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