Ogre::Barrier Class Reference

A barrier is a synchronization mechanism where multiple threads wait until all of them have reached the barrier sync point before continuing. More...

#include <OgreBarrier.h>

Public Member Functions
	Barrier (size_t threadCount)
	~Barrier ()
void	sync (void)
	When calling this function, it will block until all N threads reach this point; where N is the thread count passed to the Barrier's constructor.

Detailed Description

A barrier is a synchronization mechanism where multiple threads wait until all of them have reached the barrier sync point before continuing.

A fixed number of threads must be provided on initialization.

Remarks

On Windows, Synchronization Barriers weren't introduced until Windows 8 (!?!?!? No comments...) Therefore, we emulate them using two Semaphores and (for performance reasons)

Author

Matias N. Goldberg

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Barrier()

Ogre::Barrier::Barrier

(

size_t

threadCount

)

~Barrier()

Ogre::Barrier::~Barrier

(

)

Member Function Documentation

sync()

void Ogre::Barrier::sync

(

void

)

When calling this function, it will block until all N threads reach this point; where N is the thread count passed to the Barrier's constructor.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• OgreBarrier.h