From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-01-26T02:47:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Class.new ?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 25.01.2007 18:02, Alex Young wrote:
>> Avdi Grimm wrote:
>>> The first example off the top of my head:
>>>
>>> A class which might return an existing object out of an object pool,
>>> instead of returning a new object.
>> Ooh...  Has anyone written a ThreadPool which works that way?  That 
>> would be nice :-)
> 
> I don't think this is the right pattern for a thread pool.  There you 
> usually start all the threads and let them fetch tasks from a single 
> queue.  Taking threads out of a pool and into a pool seems much more 
> complex especially since you want to block inactive threads.  The queue 
> variant is much simpler.  Or did you have something else in mind?
Not really - just wondering what it would look like :-)  I might have a 
play later, and see if it makes any sense.

-- 
Alex