Re: Accessing non-static class members fom static methods (About
an alternative)
* K?r?at:
I will use this class with an IOCP based server and
thousands of works will be queued and processed. So extra allocations and
deallocations will harm performance.
By caching "this" as a static pointer, I will eliminate this performance
penalty and pass only "context" object as I can access "this" via static
pointer.
I think reentrancy and other issues can be applied in both cases. There is
no defference between passing "this" as a parameter and caching it in a
static member as long as the object is singleton.
Am I right?
You really shouldn't be thinking about a singleton as a runnable for a thread
/pool/.
The point of a pool is to have several runnables queued.
You should instead be thinking along the lines of
DWORD WINAPI ThreadProc( void* p )
{
static_cast<IRunnable*>(p)->run();
}
Cheers, & hth.,
- Alf
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