Hands-On High Performance Programming with Qt 5

Getting rid of the QThread class

We said that we cannot use the std::thread class because it does not provide the event loop. Well, that's not entirely true. In fact, we could mimic QThread inside of the regular std::thread by using a QEventLoop instance to run a thread-local event loop. We could even move a QObject into that thread's context because the static QThread::currentThread() function will give you a QThread* we can use for this purpose.

But, why should we want to do that? Just look at this as an exercise, testing your understanding of Qt threading mechanisms.