Question regarding Queue object

Terry terry.yinzhe at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 19:26:30 EDT 2008


On Apr 28, 5:30 pm, Nick Craig-Wood <n... at craig-wood.com> wrote:
> David <wizza... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Another idea would be to have multiple queues, one per thread or per
> >  message type "group". The producer thread pushes into the appropriate
> >  queues (through an intelligent PutMsg function), and the consumer
> >  threads pull from the queues they're interested in and ignore the
> >  others.
>
> Unfortunately a thread can only wait on one Queue at once (without
> polling).  So really the only efficient solution is one Queue per
> thread.
>
> Make an intelligent PutMsg function which knows which Queue (or
> Queues) each message needs to be put in and all the threads will have
> to do is Queue.get() and be sure they've got a message they can deal
> with.
>
> --
> Nick Craig-Wood <n... at craig-wood.com> --http://www.craig-wood.com/nick


I do have one Queue per thread. The problem is the thread can not peek
into the Queue and select msg with certain ID first.



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