Re: How to share data between threads

On 2008-09-13, Vladimir Vassilevsky <antispam_bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Whenever there is anything shared between the two threads, I always use
the OS synchronization mechanism. It is not a good idea to rely on the
atomicity of *any* operation, because it is VERY system dependent. Also,
I avoid the communication between the threads via the shared objects.
Instead, I use the OS message passing mechanism,

How can that not be using a shared object?

which is guaranteed to be atomic and free from the priority
lockup. Albeit somewhat inefficient, this discipline allows
developing big projects and keeping them manageable.

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