execution_base

The basic execution module is the main entry point to implement parallel and concurrent operations. It is modeled after P0443 with some additions and implementations for the described concepts. Most notably, it provides an abstraction for execution resources, execution contexts and execution agents in such a way, that it provides customization points that those aforementioned concepts can be replaced and combined with ease.

For that purpose, three virtual base classes are provided to be able to provide implementations with different properties:

• resource_base: This is the abstraction for execution resources, that is

  for example CPU cores or an accelerator.

• context_base: An execution context uses execution resources and is able

  to spawn new execution agents, as new threads of executions on the available resources.

• agent_base: The execution agent represents the thread of execution, and

  can be used to yield, suspend, resume or abort a thread of execution.