Introducing YAThreadLib!
This project offers an engine to run concurrent threads simultaneously. As seen in threading.cpp, the Dispatcher object takes as a parameter an array of function pointers. After constructing a Dispatcher with this parameter, one can call Dispatcher.runThreads() which will begin scheduling the functions to be executed concurrently.
Adress translation is needed to get correct addresses for the functions' stack -- this implies an architecture dependency. Due to limited resources, only certain CPU architectures are supported -- x86_64. Note: the code can easily support 32 bit Intel architectures, however it has not been tested.
This has been tested on a x86-64 system running Ubuntu.
To play with the code, clone it, then navigate to the main directory "USER_THREADING". Then
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
If using an x86_64 architecture, an executable "ThreadingExample" will be created (within build/lib). Running this will demonstrate how the threading library works.
The purpose of this project was mainly for self learning. I developed it as a mechanism to understand the internals of multi-threading. Additionally, it served me as an outlet to test features of C++. At this point, I am not sure if I will put in the effort to turn this into a production ready library as similar libraries exist.