I am writing a multi-threaded program using OpenMP in C++. At one point my program forks into many threads, each of which need to add “jobs” to some container that keeps track of all added jobs. Each job can just be a pointer to some object.
Basically, I just need the add pointers to some container from several threads at the same time.
Is there a simple solution that performs well? After some googling, I found that STL containers are not thread-safe. Some stackoverflow threads address this question, but none that forms a consensus on a simple solution.
There’s no built-in way to do this. You can simply use a lock to guard one of the existing container types. It might be a better idea to have each thread use it’s own container, then combine the results together in the end.