From: aminer on

Skybuck wrote:

>Some notes/pointers:

>1. The adventage of "blocking locks" on windows is that it doesn't consume
>so much cpu (?) when it's waiting... this leads to lower cpu temperatures.

>2. Nowadays I want to make my programs run as "cold" as possible to save the
>system from overheat death.


>3. Spinlocks make the cpu run hot and there is bad ?! Unless very maybe the
>blocking scenerio would be worse, but that needs to be proven first.


Read carefully:


"The worker threads enters in a wait state when there is
no job in the lock-free queues - for more efficiency -"

http://pages.videotron.com/aminer/threadpool.htm


So, my Thread Pool Engine doesn't consume any CPU when
there is no job in the queues , and this leads to lower
cpu temperatures.

:)


Sincerely,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.