[Interest] Heavily Commented Example: Simple Single Frontend with Two Backends

d3fault d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 07:21:22 CEST 2012


guh sorry wrong list
mfw 2012 and we still have to change that
On Oct 21, 2012 10:20 PM, "d3fault" <d3faultdotxbe at gmail.com> wrote:

> volatile bools work, but just know that every time you check it you are
> doing a non-cached memory read (relatively slow). It can't read from the
> cache/registers (much faster) because other threads/processes are allowed
> to modify it at any time (and when they do, they don't/can't modify the
> cached/in-register copy). I used to use volatile bools in a similar fashion
> before I discovered Qt... but Qt provides much better ways for managing
> threads.
>
> If you only need to read from the serial port periodically, you can set
> your backend up like I did for backend2 in the exampe... which also uses a
> timer.
>
> ....but if it ain't broke, don't fix it...
>
> d3fault
>
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