I think that this answers it: Search of archives shows 2002/2003 mail-list items saying its a TODO, and not high priority ....
And it's probably still not a high priority. SpinWait is a more efficient wait then the standard blocking mechanism (in most cases), but since it is only a more efficient version of Wait it is not implemented yet. SpinWait goes into a loop to grab the lock before giving up and entering the wait state...and no, it is actually more efficient because if you can grab the lock before entering the wait state, the better the performance. Gary M. Smithrud Haley Systems, Inc. Phone: 724-934-7853 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.haley.com Moving at the Speed of Change -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ted leslie Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 2:37 AM To: mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com Subject: [Mono-devel-list] Thread SpinWait not supported? Interrupt ? Unhandled Exception: System.NotImplementedException: The requested feature is not implemented. in <0x0001d> System.Threading.Thread:SpinWait (Int32 iterations) in <0x00072> ServerClass:StaticMethod () in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void () I tried a Thread.SpinWait / Interrupt demo program ... and mono doesn't support SpinWait ? Its an inefficent function, but if someone were to use it in MS .Net and expect there code to work on Mono? Then having said that, SpinWait and Interrupt seem to be a matching pair, so without SpinWait, what is Interrupt going to be used for? It doesn't seem to Interrupt Sleep(). Search of archives shows 2002/2003 mail-list items saying its a TODO, and not high priority .... I have read some workarounds, but I can't help but think if Interrupt is supposed to also interrupt a Sleep, this would be handy. Is there a big implementation delima? Or is it not considered a high priority? On to the suggested work around ................... -------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:53, Yury Serdyuk wrote: > Hi ! > > We see in the "List of not-implemented classes" that > the Interrupt - method didn't realized yet. > In particular, the following program doesn't work properly : > > But this function is very important for multithreading applications. > So, tell us about the current status of this problem, Thread.Interrupt() has not been implemented, and it is way down on my todo list. > or is there a walk-around of it ? Use events to signal state changes between threads? - Dick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -tl _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list