How do i make the main thread sleep while worker threads work and worker threads sleep when waiting for main thread to execute them

• parallel

  1 0 3.6 C++

  A c++ library to help easily spread work equally among logical processors (by PedroSilva8)

To avoid making this post any bigger here is a link (cpp, hpp) to an example of another way I tried to implement this using std::condition_variable and std::atomic

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  BS::thread_pool: a fast, lightweight, and easy-to-use C++17 thread pool library

Nope, it's definitely a problem with your code, not an external problem. This is an inevitable result when your threading scheme is not watertight. I don't have any code snippets since I'm just remembering what I've done in the past on projects, but if you can't design it to work yourself I suggest using a library. You said you've been "dealing with [multithreading] for some time now and think I have a decent understanding" but that doesn't sound like you really have a solid theoretical understanding of the subject, especially considering that it's a notoriously difficult subject. My recommendation is either to go back and plan out a watertight synchronization scheme on paper (may require finding some lecture series on multithreading theory), or to use an off-the-shelf thread pool library like this one I just found by googling thread pool library. I suggest the former if this is a hobby project, but if this code has a possibility of ever being used by other people I suggest doing the latter.

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