Hi Bradley, >> And I don't think they very much liked the idea of spinning while trying to >> acquire a lock (consumes power)... at least we have a call to >> QThread::yieldCurrentThread(), though it would be interesting to see what >> happens if we replace it with a PAUSE instruction. > Have you seen the spin code in 4.8? It does use > QThread::yieldCurrentThread(). ;)
I guess it depends a bit on if you want to yield to another thread or not ;-). Of course: burning cpu time is another way to solve this ;-) Greetings, Carsten > > -- > Bradley T. Hughes > bradley.hug...@nokia.com > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development