Question

I need to develop a module which will execute scheduled tasks.
Each task is scheduled to be executed within X milliseconds.

The module takes as a parameter an amount of worker threads to execute the tasks.

The tasks are piled up in a queue which will probably be a priority queue, so a thread checks for the next-in-queue task (the one with the lowest “redemption” time), thus there’s no need to iterate through all tasks each time.

Is there any public library that does that or shall I roll my own?

Note: I’m using VC2008 on Windows.

Answer 1

If you don’t mind a Boost dependency, threadpool might fit your needs.