Currently the only concrete implementations of the Executor interface are the ThreadPoolExecutor and the ScheduledThreadpoolExecutor Instead of using the utility / factory class Executors, you should create an instance using a constructor. You can pass a BlockingQueue to the constructors of the ThreadPoolExecutor. One of the implementations of the BlockingQueue, the PriorityBlockingQueue lets you pass … Read more
There’s no way to set thread priorities via the C++11 library. I don’t think this is going to change in C++14, and my crystal ball is too hazy to comment on versions after that. In POSIX, pthread_setschedparam(thread.native_handle(), policy, {priority}); In Win32 BOOL SetThreadPriority(HANDLE hThread,int nPriority)
A realtime priority thread can never be pre-empted by timer interrupts and runs at a higher priority than any other thread in the system. As such a CPU bound realtime priority thread can totally ruin a machine. Creating realtime priority threads requires a privilege (SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege) so it can only be done by administrative users. For … Read more