Re: Threads: Other Primitives

From: bill_kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-13 09:46:43

--- In boost_at_y..., Darryl Green <green_at_t...> wrote:
> >   I have been working with multithread software designs for 
nearly 10
> > years now in embedded real-time telecom equipment.  I have seen
> > neither the need nor the use for the LIFO case, but maybe someone 
else
> > has.
> I think a thread pool would want to use LIFO - it would seem 
reasonable to
> expect that the dispatch of making a more recently run thread ready 
would be
> faster than a less recently run one (it would be unlikely to be 
slower in
> any case). I can't think of any other  reason (off hand) for 
wanting LIFO. I
> must admit that I have never explicitly requested LIFO.

LIFO must be applied to the queued jobs, but there need not be a LIFO 
gaurantee on any synchronization primitives to do this.  So I think 
this is a different topic from what was being discussed.

Bill Kempf