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std-compatible API

We provide a set of Photon API that are fully compatible to C++ std.

Please refer to https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread for the official documents.

Namespace​

Use photon_std:: instead of std::

Headers​

<photon/thread/std-compat.h>

Supported Classes​

  • thread
  • mutex
  • condition_variable
  • recursive_mutex
  • timed_mutex
  • lock_guard
  • unique_lock

Supported Functions​

  • this_thread::yield()
  • this_thread::get_id()
  • this_thread::sleep_for()
  • this_thread::sleep_until()

Extended Functions​

  • work_pool_init Create a global WorkPool
  • work_pool_fini Destroy the WorkPool
  • this_thread::migrate() Migrate current thread to another vCPU in the WorkPool

Example Code​

int main() {
    photon::init(event_engine, io_engine);
    DEFER(photon::fini());

    photon_std::work_pool_init(8, event_engine, io_engine);
    DEFER(photon_std::work_pool_fini());
}