Re: Firing events asynchronously

From:

"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>

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microsoft.public.vc.atl

Date:

Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:41:18 -0700

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The problem with garbage collection is it's unpredictable.
If you only care about performance on average, you don't
need to worry about garbage collection. However, if you
have specific requirement for maximum processing time,
anything without upper bound on time is a big no-no. The
fact it happens very rarely is of no importance in that case
since you only look at the worst case scenario.

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"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"Luigi Sacchetti" <luigi.sacchetti@3dautomazione.it> wrote in message
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Is it possible to fire events asyncronoulsy from a COM object ?
What I need is the COM object thread firing the event not to block
waiting
the event sink has finshed processing it.

Here's a thought: rather than using an event, you can use a callback
interface that takes advantage of the asychronous method call mechanim:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0400/async/

(Caveat: I have never used this aspect of COM)

A second approach is to launch a worker thread to handle the event-firing,
which would probably be my choice. This can be simplified if the COM
object resides in an MTA.

What I would do is to write an out of process COM component to be used
from a .NET managed application (C#) and I want to avoid the unmanaged
process that implements the COM component to be slowed down by a garbage
collecting that accidentally take places while the process is firing a
COM event.

Is this a valid concern? How much time is being lost by the garbage
collection? Be sure you aren't trying to solve a problem that doesn't
exist.

Brian

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