Re: Event loop

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Earle R. Nietzel wrote:

> I think you mean threads not another process...
>
> Threads are a much better solution than creating another process...

Not always!

Why are not httpd in one big process with a lot of treads?
Why are inted spawning processes instead of just using shared
libs and creating threads???

So this must be a design issue... Good design is not always
easy. Sometimes you must experiment with threads implementations
versus processes. 

But to do someting like

  while(1)
  {
     do_one_thing();
     do_another_thing();
     ...
  }

must be wrong. Here you should use thread *or* processes.
If the jobs *must* be done in sequence you should consider
semaphores och some signaling mechanism.

IMHO

G Hasse


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