Multi-Producer, Multi-Consumer channel for multithreaded applications
This is a single header library that enables message passing between threads through a channel. This minimizes the necessity for basic synchronization primitives. Channel is a templated class that takes a variadic list of messages, which are just structures containing data. In order to initialize a channel you have to provide a handler for every message structure you passed into the template. For threads receiving and handling messages, you provide them a reference or pointer to the channel's receiver. For threads sending messages you pass off the transmitter.
/tests/tests.cpp contains a basic implementation example on how to use Channel.
- Create the message structs you'd like to pass through the channel
- Create the channels, passing in handlers for each message type in the same order that they are defined in the template arguments
- Spawn the threads you want to spawn and have them use the channels to send or process the next message.