[GD-Windows] Stopping a thread cleanly

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

Okay, kind of a newbie question, but I thought I understood it, now I'm
not so sure.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of exiting a thread based on
WaitForSingleObject with short timeout vs. checking a global variable?
Both are effectively in a delayed hard polling loop, where the delay is
a Sleep( 250 ).

The only advantage I can really see is that the WFSO call is going to
avoid race conditions intrinsically, whereas checking a global variable
I'll have to be a lot more diligent about guarding accesses to the
variable.

Brian