Re: Global data concurrent access ?

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Chris Mullins [MVP] <cmullins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I try hard not to let reality intrude on my generalizations...

:)

I guess the big questions for the OP is "how much work are you doing in each
thread?". It still may be trivial relevant to the time it takes to start the
thread.

True.

... but yea, starting and stopping threads are like exceptions. Everyone
says (even me, obviously) that it's horrible, but we all forget just how
good horrible can be. :)

And of course the reality of that changes every year as hardware gets
cheaper. Just as with exceptions, of course, excessive starting and
stopping of threads is a symptom of an architecture which should be
looked at, but probably won't actually kill performance in itself.

Next in line: how expensive is making a database connection these days?
:)

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