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

I don't know if you're looking for a C++ library (which I think you are), but Doug Lea's Fork/Join framework for Java 7 is pretty nifty, and does exactly what you want. You'd probably be able to implement it in C++ or find a pre-implemented library.

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