Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:59:12 12/05/00
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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..
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