Re: tasking design considerations

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On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 9:42:36 AM UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
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> Yes. Two minor notes:
> 
> 1. It is not a stack (LIFO) it a FIFO, I suppose you want to keep the 
> messages ordering.

OK, yes, it is a FIFO storage.
 
> 2. You don't need a protected object or other locking method because a 
> FIFO with a single writer and a single reader is task-safe (can be 
> designed lock-free).
> 

I don't understand. It might be that the task reading the FIFO starts while a callback is active adding a message to the FIFO. I think there must be a lock to exclude reading and writing the FIFO at the same time.

RE