Poll: Question for all developers

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Hi,

first used when I was in the second year in college while studying vc++ (not much as programming assignment ), that must be around 2003-2004.

now a days using for handling serial communication.

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Mostly I use multithreading to keep the GUI responsive and also used some pthreads for some Linux/Unix apps.

Im a c++ noob so i know very little.

I voted no, but that was probably a dumb thing to do as im all ALONE :(

and what is a multithreaded application??

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Originally Posted by atomcracker

Im a c++ noob so i know very little.

I voted no, but that was probably a dumb thing to do as im all ALONE :(

and what is a multithreaded application??

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It's an application with more than one thread of execution.

So consider a simple word processor application that is able to print with two implementations: one single threaded and the other multithreaded.

On the single threaded app if a user types something and prints it out, the user must wait for the printing to complete before [s]he is able to type some more.

On the multithreaded version a second thread is started for the printing and the user is able to continue to work WHILE the printing is going on. This because the user is typing into the part of code that runs in one thread and the printing is running in a separate thread.

P.S. It's okay to vote no if you haven't ever done multi-threaded programming.

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Originally Posted by cilu

I can't think of any serious application being single-threaded.

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Why so ? Just curious.

I don't know why a calculator application should be multithreaded, nor a paintbrush kind of program..

Because the clock wouldn't update while you were moving your mouse.

Can't really do it in VB, but, compared to DOS, isn't it all MT? :)


Just my 2 cents on the subject.

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Originally Posted by dglienna

Can't really do it in VB, but, compared to DOS, isn't it all MT? :)

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No. If you want multiple threads in your program, you're going to have to create them yourself. (Although, in a few exceptions the OS will create them for you - like when using SHFileOperation).

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Originally Posted by dglienna

Can't really do it in VB, but, compared to DOS, isn't it all MT? :)


Just my 2 cents on the subject.

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You can say "I'm programming in a multithreading environment".
But, until saying "I'm doing multithreading programming", a lot of water has to flow in the Mississippi river.
:)

First MT program was in 97 I do believe...still used very much today.

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Originally Posted by TheCPUWizard

OTOH: if you could get $0.01 for every instance of every type of queue object in every copy of windows, you would surely be a rich man.

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But David, with friends like us don't you already consider yourself to be rich with good friends ?? :D :D

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But David, with friends like us don't you already consider yourself to be rich with good friends ??

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Yes, and the riches of family and friends far surpasses that of any amount of money. :wave: