Re: [Boost-users] Signals2 benchmark

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Signals2 benchmark
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-06 14:18:04

On 6 Feb 2015 at 18:45, Joren Heit wrote:

> Thanks Tony for the thorough reply. I had just made sure that signals can
> be (dis)connected by multiple threads in a thread-safe manner, but you are
> right that there is much more to it. This will be hard to implement I
> think, but I'll do my best!
> 
> One thing I don't quite grasp yet, is the following. Suppose one thread
> disconnects a slot while another fires a signal connected to that slot. You
> say that the implementation must make sure that the signal is not fired
> after the disconnect-call returns. But won't this be undefined behaviour,
> as there is no way of knowing which will grab the lock first?

An atomic increment/decrement use count maybe? Slow when contended, 
but faster possibly than alternatives.

BTW you can fold a lock into a pointer by using its bottom bit as the 
lock bit. I have an implementation in Boost.Spinlock if you want it.

Niall

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