Well maybe "thread-safety" is not the exact term to use - what I ment was an object, which will not break if accessed by multiple threads (not actually capable of doing >=2 things at once).
As for my scenario - it is relatively simple : Most of the time - users do not need the database itself because a background class is doing synchronization between the main database, the local copy and the memory of the workstation. Two times a day, a user makes a report. I have thought about making the report on a second connection, created and used on the GUI thread, but the information depends on the data in RAM/local storage, which may not be saved at the time of generating, which is why I mut-ex things in anyway. Actually I just don`t like the idea of unnesesary connections(I have a thing about wasted resources) so I use just one, doing one thing at a time on different threads(gui or background). I find the idea useful and thought other people might like it :) Thanks anyway, a second opinion usually saves me a few weeks of recode :D Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:38:07 +0400, Jiri Cincura <disk...@cincura.net>: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 14:35, Ivan Arabadzhiev > <intelru...@unrealsoft.net> wrote: >> (and I hate mutexes) :). I guess I`ll get some sort of > > If you mean the Mutex class, then this class isn't the best choice in > many scenarios. It's doing too much. But in general I don't believe in > mut-ex at all. It's wasting resources blocking threads (or spinning). > >> wrapper for the provider to handle threads ... I`m tired of syncing them >> 'the long way' > > I don't know your scenario... Why not to have one object per thread? > Why not to have a worker thread (though creating thread explicitly > hurt performance) doing the "database work" (which is what the mut-ex > will end up actually doing) - this is inverting the problem. > > Maybe you're trying to do something, that's doable better way and > somebody in list already tested the wrong paths, and will answer. > -- Sanity is a sin! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Firebird-net-provider mailing list Firebird-net-provider@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-net-provider
