Re: Why is java consumer/producer so much faster than C++
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:51:20 +0000 (UTC)
yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) wrote:
In article <86c79114-84e6-4065-a9a4-b5b3edf8fcac@googlegroups.com>,
Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@gmail.com> wrote:
I made a few changes to your code:
1. I only signal if the capacity becomes non-zero or non-full.
2. If the queue is the queue has got some items in it and the mutex
is locked, the put thread yields to the take thread. If the queue
has some free space in it and the mutex is locked, the take thread
yields to the put thread.
Are you sure about the usefulness of #2?
Problem is that we need to reduce waiting on condition to minimum
as more condition waits program is slower.
Ideally there would be no condition waits (maximum speed).
Doing a few tests myself, adding this in m queue seems to reduce
performance by some 20%: while (!lock.owns_lock())
{
if (queue_.size() > capacity_/4)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 3250; ++i)
std::this_thread::yield();
lock.try_lock();
}
else
{
lock.lock();
break;
}
}
This is second version, on my system first version seems better
for smaller capacities...
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