[libcxx-commits] [PATCH] D150284: [libc++][PSTL] Add a simple std::thread backend
Nikolas Klauser via Phabricator via libcxx-commits
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Wed May 17 10:06:45 PDT 2023
philnik added inline comments.
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Comment at: libcxx/include/__algorithm/pstl_backends/cpu_backends/thread.h:32
+ auto __max_thread_count = thread::hardware_concurrency();
+ return __max_thread_count == 0 ? 1 : __max_thread_count;
+ }());
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EricWF wrote:
> This calculation seems a bit weird to me.
>
> We're basically saying that if no concurrency is reported, then we'll use 2 (not one) threads.
> Why are we not just running the algorithm in the current thread in this case?
>
>
> Either way, it seems like we should be using the calling thread to do some work rather than just waiting on the other threads to join.
>
Frankly, I don't really care. As I already said, this is a shitty backend and shouldn't be used in production. This is more of a placeholder than anything else. We should implement a proper thread pool later and not instantiate threads every time an algorithm is called.
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