multithreading communication

[laasunde]

Is sending\posting messages the preferred way to communicating between threads ? I've read about using events and global variables but not convinced thats a good option.

What if it's a worker thread that has no message pump ?

Im very keen to learn more about multithreading so any article\ tutorial anyone can recommend is more than welcome.

[Andreas Masur]

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[Andreas Masur]

Well...like usual it kind of depends on what you are trying to do... :cool:

Take a look at the following (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/multiple_threads.asp)...

[laasunde]

Didnt know there was a multithreading forum.

Thanks for the link but I'm at the moment developing in mfc.

My question was suppose to be a general question about multithreading.

Is messages the preferred way to execute a method in another thread ? How can I find out that state of a thread ?

Another thing, need advice on a design matter. Im developing a program that needs to receive small datapackages about 8-12 every second and then process the received data. I've made a class that derives of CAsyncSocket to receive the data. Would it make much of difference speed wise to have the receive object run in the primary thread or create a separate thread for the receiving object.