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With cv.wait_for(... do i need the loop around it to catch spurious wakes?
You should've read the answer better or checked the C++ reference for std::condition_variable. When you supply a predicate (the condition lambda) to wait, wait_for, wait_until the function already has a loop inside it to deal with spurious wake ups. It will exit only once the ...
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I see two main problems in this approach
Creating a thread for each timer is extremely wasteful
Running the callback synchronously with the timer can lead to all sorts of problems as you mention.
The usual design for a high-performance timer is to have a single thread that waits for the next timer to fire and queues the callback to some work-queue. The ...
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Everything should be wrapped in a function, for easier reading..
The alarm looks good!
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