[Boost-users] Thread creation overhead & efficiency

From: James Sutherland (James.Sutherland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-29 11:29:46

I am a new user of boost::thread.  After implementing it I found that it
slowed down execution of my code.  I suspect that it may be due to the
overhead of thread creation.  I am creating/destroying thread_group ojects
many times (tens of thousands) during code execution.  Pardon my naïve
question, but is this a problem for performance?

I noticed some reference to a thread pool on this list.  Is a thread pool
the best alternative in this situation?

Thanks for any guidance,

James