Hello Joel, Friday, December 16, 2005, 3:22:46 AM, you wrote:
TZ> You don't have to check "every few seconds". You can determine TZ> exactly how much you have to sleep - just check the timeout/ event with TZ> the lowest ClockTime.
JR> The scenario above does account for the situation that you are JR> describing. to be exact - Tomasz's variant don't work proper in this situation, but your code (which is not use this technique) is ok
i repeat my thought - if you have one or several fixed waiting periods (say, 1 sec, 3 sec and 1 minute), then you don't need even to sort requests - just use one waking thread for each waiting period and requests will be arrive already sorted. in this way, you can really sleep as Tomasz suggests
JR> I do not have several fixed waiting periods, they are determined by JR> the user. by the user of library? by the poker player? what you exactly mean? -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com