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Launching an Asynchronous Operation Using BackgroundWorker by Jayadev D The .NET BackgroundWorker class makes it a snap to launch asynchronous operations on a separate thread.
Using the OneWay Web Service Attribute by Srinath MS When you call a void web service method, apply the OneWay attribute to avoid having the calling thread wait for a response.
Using Templates for Concurrent XSLT Transformations by Leonard Anghel Use Templates to use a Transformer object (from the TrAX API) in multiple threads running concurrently.
Multi-Threading: When printf Can Be Better than cout by John Hendrix printf and fprintf are much less likely to be preempted in the middle of streaming data.
Using CreateProcess Instead of _tspawnl to Spawn Programs by Alison Lomaka Using _tspawnl to spawn programs can have undesirable side effects. Learn how to avoid them.
A Safe Way to Stop a Java Thread by Kevin Spiteri The Thread.stop() method is unsafe and thus deprecated.
A C++ Mutex Operation for Intel-compatible Processors by Andrei Borac Interprocess synchronization has always been classified as a "slow" operation, but that is largely only because the Windows implementation requires switching to kernel mode (an expensive operation) each time you attempt to acquire a mutex.
Executing a Subprocess by Lundholm Per When executing a subprocess in Java, remember to read both the stdout and stderr from the process or it may be blocked.
Threads and ThreadGroups by Navneet Gupta Every Java thread is a member of a
Don by Rajesh Chathapuram PostThreadMessage is a Win32 API used to post messages to threads. Usually, the message posted is a standard windows message with the window handle set to NULL.
How to Share a Handle Between Two Threads by Rajesh Chathapuram Whenever a handle is passed to another thread, use the DuplicateHandle ...
Making a Thread-Safe or Synchronized Collection by Shantanu Garg As you know by now, the commonly used collection classes, such as java.util.ArrayList, are not synchronized. However, if there's a chance that two threads could be altering a collection ...
Accessing Class Members From the Static Member Function by Rajesh Chathapuram When a class has Thread entry functions, it is usually declared as static member functions of the class as in the example ...
Take Control of the Threads Created By a Program by Shantanu Garg Whenever a thread is created in a program, it is unknown when it will execute. This means there may be cases where the parent program has finished but the thread is still executing. One way to ...
Portable Locks by Danny Kalev Sometimes you need to make sure that only one instance of the same application can run at any given time. Although every platform defines different locking schemes, you can use the following ...
Threads and JDBC Connections by DevX Pro Is the JDBC Connection class thread safe? In other words, can a connection be shared between multiple threads without using synchronization?
Synchronized Method Overhead by DevX Pro I am interested in keeping my code running as fast as possible. Is there a cost associated with making my methods synchronized, and if so, how significant a cost?
Threading and SimpleDateFormat by DevX Pro Is SimpleDateFormat threadsafe? I am trying to track down a bug where a date formatted "yyyy-MM-dd" actually came out as 2000-06-0001. I have four threads accessing the format method of my date formatter class at approximately the same time.
Identify Atomic and Non-Atomic Operations by C.V. Ram In Java, the reading and writing of 32-bit or smaller quantities are guaranteed to be atomic. By atomic we mean each action takes place in one step and cannot be interrupted. Thus, when we have ...
Re-entrant Functions by Danny Kalev A function that can be safely called while it's already executing is said to be re-entrant. The C++ standard doesn't state whether the Standard Library's functions are re-entrant; this is an ...
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