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[FR]: Expose the ThreadPool virtual API for custom thread and synchronisation implementations

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
performance

Research direction

The issue names no file, so start by locating the ThreadPool type used inside the engine and every place it constructs, joins or synchronises threads. The goal is to make thread and synchronisation creation overridable so a host can inject macOS real-time threads; decide which methods become virtual and document the contract subclasses must honour. 'Done' means a user can supply their own implementation without patching the engine, shown by an example or test that substitutes a custom pool and still runs audio work.

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Description

This will make it possible for users to supply juce threads that run as macOS real-time threads on performance cores only.

Dominant language
C++
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Forks
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Avg merge
15h 44m
Merged PRs (30d)
33

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