Re: [Quickfix-developers] Faster logons

[Dale W. <wil...@oc...>]

Brian Erst wrote:

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>I would also suggest that the use of process_sleep is a bad idea -
>whenever I need to code a sleep-type function, I use a mutex and a
>WaitForSingleObject with the sleep time as the timeout. That way, I can
>interrupt the sleep (by triggering the mutex) if the reason for the
>sleep has gone away (or so I don't have to wait 30 seconds to bring my
>application down if I'm sleeping). Makes things much more responsive.
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An excellent idea with one very important drawback.  WaitForSingleObject 
with a timeout is a WIN32 concept.
It is possible, but not necessarily easy, to code an equivalent 
functionality on a posix system using |pthread_cond_timedwait.
If QuickFIX were going to use this technique someone would have to beef 
up its cross-platform thread synchronization support.

Dale

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>- Brian Erst
>Thynk Software, Inc.
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