Le duodi 12 frimaire, an CCXXIV, Clement Boesch a écrit : > - there is a large queue of packets, almost filled > - there is one fast sender filling the queue (the demuxer) > - there is a bunch of slow readers reading from the queue (the decoders) > - the sender "receives" a seek event from the user > - the sender now wants to stop as fast as possible readers (decoders) > from reading all kind of packets
Ok. > If that sender has to lock for every message it's going to read & drop, > while the decoders are still fighting to read them from the queue, it > looks very ineffective to me. This, especially "looks very ineffective", sounds like premature optimization. I am not against it, but then the documentation should tell it is an optimization. And conversely, if it is not only a matter of efficiency but also of correctness, the documentation must explain what the risk is. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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