[Development] Is QtConcurrent's code generator still in use?

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 19 de novembro de 2012 14.03.17, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> > - The core of a concurrency engine should be a work-stealing data
> > structure/scheduler. Qt Concurrent  has simple work-stealing
> > functionality, but is to tied to the global thread pool.
> Since number of available CPU cores is usually constant over process
> lifetime (let's forget HPC clusters :), there's nothing wrong with global
> thread pool.

By that, you immediately restrict QtConcurrent's use to CPU-bound tasks. One 
can't use it anymore for tasks that involve blocking I/O, for example.

Let me give you an example of a thread pool used differently: the DNS resolver 
code in QtNetwork. It uses 5 threads, regardless of how many CPU cores you 
have. It involves a blocking call. And as such, it must not use the global 
thread pool because it would prevent other tasks from running.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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