Multithreaded job queue manager

Question

I need to manage CPU-heavy multitaskable jobs in an interactive application. Just as background, my specific application is an engineering design interface. As a user tweaks

Answer 1

You might want to look at Flow-Based Programming - it is based on data chunks streaming between asynchronous components. There are Java and C# versions of the driver, plus a number of precoded components. It is intrinsically multithreaded - in fact the only single-threaded code is within the components, although you can add timing constraints to the standard scheduling rules. Although it may be at too fine-grained a level for what you need, there may be stuff here you can use.