[geeks] Win32 Threads

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> It is also calling a DLL, which the main thread never calls, except for
> once immediately before the thread is started.  So, the subthread is
> just a while(1) loop calling the DLL for hardware IO, and writing the
> results back for the main program to use, after some minor processing.
> It produces a great leap in application performance, especially on dual
> proc machines, since the IO calls are syncronous.

It's probably just a simple programming error then, since it sounds like
your design is quite sound.  However, without a more specific idea of
what's going on, I couldn't begin to make a guess.

> Dave, do you really want Doctors doing surgery on you without other
> training?  Because until this is finished, someone has to be first.  And
> to do it without Windows would require waiting for the patents to expire.

Or licensing them.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
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