Re: std::deque Thread Saftey Situtation
On 30 Aug., 01:27, NvrBst <nvr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ahh thanks for the clarification. I was sorta expecting it not to be
thead safe -_-.
Did you measure the performance without a lock? Presumably, it would
not really make a difference.
The clean locking way IE
lock();
while(q.size() > 0) {
Process((.front().Buffer);
delete[] etc
.pop_front();}
unlock();
This is not at all clean. You lock while processing many elements,
while you only should lock for the short duration where you pop/push
an element.
Search for "condition variables" for an idea on how to do this kind of
stuff. A producer-consumer structure is really quite basic and most
useful - but it must be implemented correctly.
Was way to slow (because of the "Process(..)"). Moving the lock
inside the while loop, and adding some tmp vars, and also managing the
"q.size()" in the head of the while loop made the code a little more
ugly, but I believe the performance isn't too much worst; just seemed
to me that if I wanted to increase the performance, tackling the
locking/unlocking that's inside the while loop might be a good thing
to look into (the while loop can run hundreds, maybe thousands of
times depending how fast the other thread is pumping the queue up).
A low level mutex is a very fast beast unless you have heavy
contention. If your data is expensive to copy, that might be a
bottleneck, but wait dealing with that until you have gotten your
basic structure to work.
/Peter
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