ThreadWorkerDemo Author: Erno Pakarinen email: codesmith-fi@gmail.com Date: 26th of June 2021 Contact: see bottom
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This is a simple example of an extendable multi thread worker.
After starting the demo, you can give following commands quit will stop all worker threads and exit [number] will start a task doing the given [number] of steps, first Idle worker is allocated for it
Each worker runs in a separate thread. The class Worker can be inherited and the actual work task implemented in the doWork() method which can be overridden in sub classes.
To use, create an instance of a Worker class (or sub class), and call the work() method to start a task. You can pass a lambda function to the method which will be used by the Worker thread if given. If not given the overridden doWork() will be called when task begins.
To build, either open the MSVC 2019 project ThreadWorkerDemo.sln or build it with e.g. GCC using make. This project has no dependencies other than standard C++ library. It should compile with C++14 and upwards.
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