This seems to work on gcc, clang and mingw as-is, but I made it
conditional on __GNUC__ just in case, even though I can't figure out
which compilers we care about that don't export this define.
Also replace all instances of assert(0) in the code by MP_UNREACHABLE(),
which is a strict improvement.
The existing thread pool code is the most primitive thread pool
possible. That's fine, but one annoying thing was that it used a static
number of threads. Make it dynamic, so we don't need to "waste" idle
threads.
This tries to add threads as needed. If threads are idle for some time,
destroy them again until a minimum number of threads is reached.
Also change the license to ISC.
Niklas Haas
wm4