1 // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be 3 // found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 #ifndef BASE_WORKER_POOL_H_ 6 #define BASE_WORKER_POOL_H_ 7 8 #include "base/tracked.h" 9 10 class Task; 11 12 // This is a facility that runs tasks that don't require a specific thread or 13 // a message loop. 14 class WorkerPool { 15 public: 16 // This function posts |task| to run on a worker thread. |task_is_slow| 17 // should be used for tasks that will take a long time to execute. Returns 18 // false if |task| could not be posted to a worker thread. Regardless of 19 // return value, ownership of |task| is transferred to the worker pool. 20 static bool PostTask(const tracked_objects::Location& from_here, 21 Task* task, bool task_is_slow); 22 }; 23 24 #endif // BASE_WORKER_POOL_H_ 25
