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A simple C++11 Thread Pool implementation

ThreadPool

A simple C++11 Thread Pool implementation.

Note: The default constructor ThreadPool<POLICY> name; will create a ThreadPool with a number of worker threads equivelent to std::thread::hardware_concurrency() or in other words the same number of threads, including hyperthreads, of the underlying CPU. Should be the same value as nproc.

Now with queueing policies!

• FIFO (default)
• Creates a First In First Out ThreadPool, queueing submitted tasks using std::queue.
• To create: ThreadPool<> name(numberOfThreads); or ThreadPool<FIFO> name(numberOfThreads);
• To enqeue: enqueue(function, arguments...);
• LIFO
• Creates a Last In First Out ThreadPool, queueing submitted tasks using std::stack.
• To create: ThreadPool<LIFO> name(numberOfThreads);
• To enqeue: enqueue(function, arguments...);
• PRIORITY
• Creates a prioritized ThreadPool, queueing submitted tasks using std::priority_queue.
• To create: ThreadPool<PRIORITY> name(numberOfThreads);
• To enqeue: enqueue(priority, function, arguments...);
• Tasks with higher (greater integer value) priorites will be dequeued before ones with lower priority.
  For example:

        ThreadPool<PRIORITY> tp;
        tp.enqueue(10, func1, args...);
        tp.enqueue(2, func2, args...);

  will cause `func1` to be dequeued before `func2` assuming that both tasks are submitted at the same time.