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7474f56e89 Library: investigate performance of SyncBarrier
Timing measurements in concurrent usage situation.
Observed delay is in the order of magnitude of known scheduling leeway;
assuming thus no relevant overhead related to implementation technique
2023-09-24 20:38:27 +02:00
b416a67bb9 Library: extract summation of pipeline results
...first used as part of the test harness;
seemingly this is a generic and generally useful shortcut,
similar to algorithm::reduce (or some kind of fold-left operation)
2023-09-23 19:39:08 +02:00
b15281d44b Library: implement and verify SyncBarrier 2023-09-23 18:05:17 +02:00
6735857f3b Library: draft a SyncBarrier latch
Intended as replacement for the Mutex/ConditionVar based barrier
built into the exiting Lumiera thread handling framework and used
to ensure safe hand-over of a bound functor into the starting new
thread. The standard requires a comparable guarantee for the C++17
concurrency framework, expressed as a "synchronizes_with" assertion
along the lines of the Atomics framework.

While in most cases dedicated synchronisation is thus not required
anymore when swtiching to C++17, some special extended use cases
remain to be addressed, where the complete initialisation of
further support framework must be ensured.

With C++20 this would be easy to achieve with a std::latch, so we
need a simple workaround for the time being. After consideration of
the typical use case, I am aiming at a middle ground in terms of
performance, by using a yield-wait until satisfying the latch condition.
2023-09-22 21:55:53 +02:00