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What is the diff. between a thread/process/task?
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So I've been getting into a bit of assembly lately and I'm a beginner so i was wondering if someone could clarify something. I take it every process has it's own set of registers, and each thread can modify these registers right?. How then do multiple threads use the same registers without causing…
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I'm a beginner learning some assembly, when preserving the ESP register before a function call does it matter if you do it by adding or subtracting? hard to explain, consider the following
mov esi, esp
sub esp, 12 // on 32bit OS this would mean that there are 3 arguments to the function
// push,…
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Sorry if I am not supposed to post beginner level questions here..I am new to this site
Please read the code below first
I am confused about getchar() 's role in the following code.. I mean I know its helping me see the output window which will only be closed when I press enter key
So getchar()…
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Learning new technologies can be daunting. If you’ve never used a Mac before, you’ll probably be a bit baffled at first. But, you’re probably at least coming from a desktop computing background (Windows), so you common frame of reference.
But what if you’re just now learning…
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My brother is just starting out college. He's studying the same thing I am here in Bolivia; Systems Engineer which is the equivalent of what a CS degree is in the US.
Being his big brother and a programmer myself I really want to guide him and give him the right material to learn and become good…
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What are the advantages/disadvantages in placing a lengthy network access code in a thread in an activity or a thread in a service? How would it affect the application? I am writing a streaming audio player and from what I've read so far putting the code in a service will still end up blocking the…
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Hi
I have an ASP.Net webservice running.
When the system date changes, i want to close all the threads and restart them again, if the thread/s aren't doing any work. If any of the thread/s is in the process of doing some work(active threads), then i need to wait till the current thread/s complete…
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Hi, this is for an assignment so I'm not looking for code.
I have to simulate a game where each player has turns and needs to 'pay attention' to what's going on.
So far, i know I'll need two threads for each player, one that will sleep until the player's turn and the other paying attention.
My…
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When using java threads, one has to take care of the basic problems that come with concurrency through synchronization etc.
AFAIK Tomcat also works with threads to handle its workload. Why is it, that I don't have to think about making my code threadsafe when it is running in Tomcat?
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Hi All,
I am working on a project which involves reusing as well as migrating some of the existing MFC code to C#.
The current code in MFC, creates some threads and uses ::PostthreadeMessage() and ON_THREAD_MESSAGE(msg,func) for inter thread asynchronous communication through messages.
::PostthreadeMessage()…
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