Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > On 2006-07-26 19:08:44, Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote: > > >> Also, threading's condition and event constructs are used a lot >> (i talk about it somewhere in that thing I wrote). They are easy to use >> and nice and ready for me, with a server wouldn't I have to have things >> poll/wait for messages? >> > > How would a thread receive a message, unless it polls some kind of queue or > waits for a message from a queue or at a semaphore? You can't just "push" a > message into a thread; the thread has to "pick it up", one way or another. > > Gerhard > > Well, I guess I'm thinking of an event driven mechanism, kinda like setting up signal handlers. I don't necessarily know how it works under the hood, but I don't poll for a signal. I setup a handler, when the signal comes, if it comes, the handler gets thrown into action. That's what I'd be interesting in doing with threads.
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