Light-weight monitor implementation?
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Nov 3 07:49:57 UTC 2005
Hi Folks,
I was looking for a simple monitor implementation (e.g., a mechanism for
mutual exclusion which allows the same process to enter it multiple
times) and looked at the implementation of Monitor that is present in
3.9. Much to my surprise, I found that this monitor implementation is a
very heavyweight version of what should essentially be three methods,
e.g., #enter, #leave, and #critical:. The extra heavy-weight behavior
might be useful in certain specific cases but I wonder about its general
applicability (personally I find it more confusing than helpful because
it hides the nature of a monitor under a lot of extra baggage). I think
it would be tremendously useful to do a little refactoring which a)
makes a tiny class Monitor and b) makes a heavy-weight EventMonitor
which has all the extra stuff (timeout, events) that is now in Monitor.
What do other people think? Is there any reason for Monitor being such a
heavy-weight object by default? Is it necessary that a monitor support
all of the extra functionality besides the basic "allow a process to
enter it multiple times"?
Cheers,
- Andreas
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