Summary:
Doing a pthread_detach while the thread is exiting can cause crashes or other mischief, so we
make sure the thread stays around long enough. The performance impact of the added
synchronization should be minimal, as the parent thread is already holding a mutex, so I am just
making sure it holds it for a little while longer. It's possible the new thread will block on
this mutex immediately after startup, but it should be unblocked really quickly and some
blocking is unavoidable if we actually want to have this synchronization.
Reviewers: tberghammer
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19153
llvm-svn: 266423
The purpose of the class is to make it easy to execute tasks in parallel
Basic design goals:
* Have a very lightweight and easy to use interface where a list of
lambdas can be executed in parallel
* Use a global thread pool to limit the number of threads used
(std::async don't do it on Linux) and to eliminate the thread creation
overhead
* Destroy the thread currently not in use to avoid the confusion caused
by them during debugging LLDB
Possible future improvements:
* Possibility to cancel already added, but not yet started tasks
* Parallel for_each implementation
* Optimizations in the thread creation destroyation code
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13727
llvm-svn: 250820
Pavel Labath