Re: [GD-General] responsive threading

[Andras B. <and...@gm...>]

Could you be a bit more specific? Should I try to decrease the number
of memory allocations? Should I try using a custom memory manager?
BTW: this is not "huge" app by any means, and it only uses two
threads, that's all..

Friday, July 29, 2005, 7:48:48 PM, you wrote:

> Mat makes a good point about MT memory allocations (and CRT).  We have
> ran into issues that stemmed from MT heap allocations in "huge" MT 
> apps.  Probably a good place to start.

> -Beau

> Andras Balogh wrote:

>> Yeah, that's what I was thinking too, that this decompressing library
>> makes some Win32 API calls, that result in the Windows kernel doing
>> some system maintanence at a higher priority..
>>
>> Mat Noguchi (BUNGIE) wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, there are many function calls that can cause stalls under
>>> multithreading: mixing blocking and non-blocking file i/o, allocating
>>> memory with malloc/free, CRT functions that manipulate global state,
>>> etc.