Re: New objects for GLib

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Gustavo,

>   What is a thread pool? I've never heard of that before.  Is it something
> you just invented or does it exist for real?  Can you point me some
> resources that might explain what is a thread pool? Thanks.

I didn't invent it, but that special implementation with resource sharing
among different thread pools arose from ORBit-mt, a multi-tread extension to
ORBit, I wrote sometime ago. Here are some references:

http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/C++-report-col6.ps.gz
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/javafaq/course/week12/27.html
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,1600298,00.html
 
Bye,
Sebastian
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