[Qt-interest] Multithreading - yield function

[Bradley T. Hughes]

Thomas Dähling wrote:
> 2009/9/1 Patric <userqt at gmail.com>:
> 
>> you are telling me that if I have two threads that are running, I really
>> don't know when the second one will start executing in the middle of the
>> code ? And stop also.
> 
> This sums it up pretty much, yes. Using threads means your program
> flow is now asynchronous, which in turn means that you cannot rely
> upon a specific order of thread execution (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing) for some basic
> information). What you can do, however, is provide QWaitConditions or
> other locking mechanisms to ensure that one thread will wait for
> another, if needed.

I recall a presentation given by a colleague of mine at DevDays a few years 
back... essentially, introducing threads into your application makes the 
entire thing non-deterministic :P

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