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Article #17507Re: Tweaking threads
From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:45
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:45
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"Dennis Jones" <djones@nospam.com> wrote in message news:3e6fb851$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > On the other hand, if every one of those threads is busy > doing something (or worse, is in a tight loop watching the > state of a flag), then the amount of context switching > would probably be significantly measureable, and > seriously affecting performance. I can only speak for my own software in that regard, but I don't see that happening. In my company's primary software, the one running 100s of threads at a time, the majority of them are actively processing live data through the lifetime of each thread from start to stop without much in the way of noticable performance hits. Gambit
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