Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Later
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0.9
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None
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Patch Available
Description
The current threading implementations have some minor annoyances:
All do some amount of internal state tracking with an enum that ends up being overkill.
All use weak_ptrs to help manage lifetimes, instead of the enable_shared_from_this base class that was designed for exactly this purpose.
All of the specific thread factories implement "detached" methods, but the base thread factory doesn't have virtual methods exposing the detached methods.
The thread manager has an unused local.
Adding a "UniqueGuard" class to Mutex.h, to give more flexible RAII management to locks. Currently no clients of this, but I have some patches that will eventually use this.