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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:19:45 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Mai Daftedar <mai.daftedar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Inter Thread Coomunication
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Mai Daftedar wrote:
> After some googling I learnt that using queues and pipes are expensive
> (effieciency wise) and that I should just pass in the parameters and
> use mutex to protect shared data...
> Can anyone add on to this tradeoff information

The entire point of threads (in contrast to processes) is to share an
address space for convenience or/and performance.  If a shared address
space is not really required, separate processes could be used instead
with the huge advantage of memory protection.
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