Roland Schwarz writes:
| Yet another tought:
| When you have returned from your wait function you will need another lock to
| access your queue in order to retrieve an entry. On the other hand
| when returning
| from m_cond.wait you are the holder of lock. So if you use the m_mutex
| also to
| protect your queue you save one locking operation.
| Consider doing away with the semaphore and integrate the condvar, mutex pair
| into your queue.
| Think of a semaphore only beeing a special case of
| (condvar,mutex,counter) triple.
Similar to this then I suppose?
I am sure it can be improved, but it has worked really well for me.
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Lgb
