Re: Named shared memory without synchronization
"Dan Schwartz" <DanSchwartz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"adebaene@club-internet.fr" wrote:
To the OP : I would suggest accessing the shared variable through
Interlock* functions. (InterlockExchange for writing,
InterlockCompareExchange for reading). This avoid the cumbersom-ness of
adding a named mutex to protect the data, it is portable among
compilers and it is rather efficient at run-time. Of course, if you are
using VC8, making the variable volatile in both processes would be
equivalent.
Arnaud
MVP - VC
My main concern here is performance. Otherwise I'd "play it safe" and use
some kind of lock. I'm not sure what the overhead of the Interlock* is,
but
if it's negligable enough I will consider using this approach.
VC8 provides compiler intrinsics that turn the Interlocked functions into a
single instruction.
The difference is that memory barriers affect when other variables are
written. If you have:
extern int a;
extern volatile int b;
a = 5;
b = 0; // this MUST change b in-memory right away, cannot eliminate as
optimizer would without volatile
b = 1; // however, a might not be written to memory yet
a = 0; // in fact, a's memory location probably will never hold 5
Thanks,
Dan
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