Thread queues for dummies

Question

I have what I assume is a pretty common threading scenario:

• I have 100 identical jobs to complete
• All jobs are independent of each other
• I want t

Answer 1

Even though the other answers are nice if you want another option (you can never have enough options), then how about this as an idea.

Just put the data for each job into a structure, which is in a FIFO stack.

Create 15 threads.

Each thread will get the next job from the stack, popping it off.

When a thread finishes the processing, get the next job, if the stack is empty the thread dies or just sleeps, waiting.

The only complexity, which is pretty simple to resolve, is having the popping be in a critical section (synchronize read/pop).