TH-2: The thread pool implementation

Requirements

• Create a C++ library (shared object) that implements a simple thread pool
• Thread pool should be implemented as a class called “parallel_scheduler”
• Thread pool takes a capacity argument in the constructor as a maximum number of threads in the pool.
• Thread pool defines a method run that takes as an input two arguments function and the argument.
• All the functions given to the “run” method are enqueued and the thread pool should execute them as soon as any of its threads gets time.
• Next, another executable application is implemented to demonstrate the usage of the thread pool library.
• The demonstration application should enqueue various functions for the execution (more than the capacity).
• The module “parallel_scheduler” should be compiled as a shared library (parallel_scheduler.so) and should be linked with the demo application.

Expected result

The resulting application should be able to build and execute from command line as follows:

make
./demo-application

The final solution should contain a Makefile for the multi-stage build. The Makefile should also contain targets all and clean. It’s recommended to have compiler and compiler flags to be declared as a Makefile variables. Alternatively, cmake could also be used instead of make.