Re: static classes & threading

That's the whole point of multithreading :) So unless there is a
mutual-exclusion lock in your method the second thread will not wait for the
first thread to finish executing the static method.

Gabriel Lozano-Morán
Software Engineer
Sogeti

"Frank Rizzo" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eWMX0gQRFHA.2252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello,
>
> I have a class with all static methods that is called by multiple threads.
> I was wondering what effect that has on the competing threads.
> Does Thread2 have to wait until Thread1 is done with the
> StaticClass.Method1 before it can use it?
>
> What if I removed static methods and made all the threads instantiate its
> own copy of the class? Would that remove the waiting contention?
>
> Thanks.


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