Subj : Re: Challenge: Multithreading & Synchronization
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri May 20 2005 05:59 pm


"Uenal Mutlu" <520001085531-0001@t-online.de> wrote in message 
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> "David Schwartz" wrote

>> "Uenal Mutlu" wrote in message
>>
>> > It depends on the situation.
>> > In a time-critical application I usually do the following:
>> >  while (!fMyFlag)
>> >     MyYield();    // gives up the rest of the time slice, ie.
>> > SwitchToOtherThread
>> >  //...
>>
>>     And if there is no other thread?
>
> You don't know what's inside in my MyYield().
> And: if there is no other thread then fMyFlag hardly can be set.
> FYI/Hint: I don't use Sleep(0)

    It is depressing how frequently you prove that you have no idea what 
you're talking about while you continue to insist that you are right. Hint: 
The other thread could be running right now on another CPU, making it 
impossible for you to yield to it or switch to it.

    DS

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