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From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][gdbsupport] Add sequential_for_each
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 18:44:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef2b746f-3ed5-5213-ed19-55909f5b0c8c@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r12mpbz9.fsf@tromey.com>

On 7/15/22 18:38, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Tom> Add a sequential_for_each alongside the parallel_for_each, which can be used
> Tom> as a drop-in replacement.
> 
> Tom> This can be useful when debugging multi-threading behaviour, and you want to
> Tom> limit multi-threading in a fine-grained way.
> 
> It's not fine-grained but I typically just set the number of worker
> threads to 0.

FWIW, the use case I'm using it for atm is developing some code that 
introduces a new parallel_for_each, and then switching some existing 
parallel_for_each back to sequential to limit the race conditions I'm 
going to run into to a certain scope.

Thanks,
- Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-15 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-25 13:20 Tom de Vries
2022-07-14 15:02 ` [comitted][gdbsupport] " Tom de Vries
2022-07-15 16:38 ` [PATCH][gdbsupport] " Tom Tromey
2022-07-15 16:44   ` Tom de Vries [this message]

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