Re: What is the overhead of using windows messages?
On the other hand, I expect window messages to have about the same overhead
as completion ports. If your program cannot handle many window messages, it
won't be able to handle many completion port messages.
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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Sleep(1) == Sleep(15); I'm not sure why you think 1 is a meaninful number;
Sleep(n) for
n>0 and n<=15 == Sleep(15); for n >15 and n <=30 == Sleep(30), etc. Sleep
is ALWAYS
rounded up to the next higher 15 ms multiple. If you are getting
exceptions with Sleep(1)
it indicates there are deep and fundamental problems in your code, since
it is impossible
for Sleep(1) to cause an exception; it is triggering other errors in your
code.
Callbacks may be "more efficient" but note that at 5000ms/sec you have
200us to respond to
a message, and that is nearly impossible in Windows to have such a
guarantee of
performance. I suspect you will discover if you recode for callbacks that
you are still
running close to CPU saturation. Note also that a timeslice end can
suspend your thread
up to several hundred MILLISECONDS, that is, the error imposed by the
scheduler can be
three orders of magnitude greater than your expected interarrival time,
without much
effort.
You should certainly consider callbacks at that data rate, but don't be
disappointed if
nothing changes.
joe
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