Re: Multitasking and containers

Maciej Sobczak wrote:

But reading from the protected object is not mutually exclusive (many readers are allowed) - so where's the gain? What's the difference between concurrent reads of, say, a Vector via protected object vs. direct access?

Supposing that some operations perform a write on the container,
for example while filling or updating,
then if there is any potential overlap of a read and a write,
the gain of protection is that none of the writes can ever interfere
with one of the read operations.

If there is no write after some point, I would say that "normal means
of protection" includes "no protection is necessary after this point".



-- Georg .

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