[omniORB] reusing threads

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 15 December, Janet Tvedt wrote:

> Is there an easy way to reuse a thread in a server object?  I am trying
> to reuse the same thread in an application to avoid any overhead from
> thread creation/destruction.

What you are trying to do is to restart an omni_thread object after
the thread has exited. The slow thing about starting a thread is not
the allocation of the object, but the startup of the actual underlying
system thread, so even if you could start an omni_thread object once
it has stopped (which you can't), it wouldn't help you much.

What I think you need to do is to start a thread once, separately from
your servant object, and feed it work to do through a work queue. It's
not hard to implement a work queue with a mutex and a condition
variable.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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