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Subject: Re: Multithreading under windows

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 15:42:50 12/05/00

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On December 05, 2000 at 13:59:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 05, 2000 at 12:37:02, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On December 05, 2000 at 10:28:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>this is not nonsense. blocking is GARANTUEED by windows.
>>>See the microsoft documents on it. they GARANTUEE blocking to
>>>prevent parallel problems.
>>
>>Are you telling me that if I get a mouse button click message from Windows, and
>>do something outrageously expensive before returning from that message, that my
>>engine threads will block until I return?
>>
>>bruce
>\
>
>I would claim that is impossible, unless the search engine threads use some
>oddball way of passing messages that makes the window manager think they are
>going to do something to the display device.  I would think pipes would have
>zero problems..

I'm just trying to smoke Vincent out.  If he says that's how it works, I can
prove this true or false easily.

bruce



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