Re: How to make this program more efficient?
On 24 Sep., 19:34, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
Erik Wikstr=F6m wrote:
No, it can among other things be useful when writing device-drivers
where a certain memory-location is mapped to registers on the device.
The usage of volatile then assures that the value of the memory-locatio=
n
is used and not some value in a register or cache. You should probably
also use it for data shared between threads (such as your pointer) but
you need to provide separate synchronisation.
Is it possible to provide the necessary synchronization without locks fro=
m C
or C++?
The current version of C++ has no support for threads whatsoever, so
we are talking platform specific options. In that context there are
varying degrees of support. The platform, I know best (Microsoft C++)
has lots of stuff to support threading without locking - I believe
documentation is available on the internet.
The new version of C++ has direct support for threading, also many low-
level primitives.
/Peter
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