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From: Helmut Giese
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:52

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Hello Mike,
Gambit said a lot of useful things about general design issues for
your situation. I just want to add a little bit of advice.
If you have a variable shared between several threads and filling it
may take some time, I usually use a local copy to work with and update
the shared variable when done. Something like

/* defined somewhere as global variable */
myStruct sharedVar;

void fillStruct( ... ) {
	myStruct localVar;
	/* fill localVar here */
	
	/* make data available to other thread(s) */
	EnterCriticalSection(...);
	sharedVar = localVar;
	LeaveCriticalSection(...);
}

This reduces the time spent in the critical section to the minimum.
HTH
Helmut Giese

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