[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D13727: Add task pool to LLDB

[Zachary Turner via lldb-commits]

zturner added a comment.

The main thought I had was just that it would make the code simpler and delegate more of the synchronization stuff to the library.  But if we don't get any of that benefit then I guess there's no point in doing that.

That said, I really dont' want to see 48 threads running inside the LLDB process at all times (I have a 48-core machine).  It makes it really annoying to debug.  So some way to tear down threads would be a big help.  But that's even more complexity.

If this is only going to be used occasionally (like each time some DWARF is being parsed), then what about making `TaskPool` non-static?  Just create a new TaskPool each time you want to do work in parallel and tear it down when you're done doing the work?  If someone creates 2 task pools they get 2 different sets of threads.  This is kind of why I prefer delegating to the standard library whenever possible, because it shoudl already handle all of these cases.

Another option is to go back to the original one line implementation using std::async, but have each asynchronous thread work on `num_compile_units / hardware_concurrency()` compile units inside of a loop.  That way you never get more than `hardware_concurrency()` threads.


http://reviews.llvm.org/D13727