The Old New Thing

Sure, I'm supposed to pass WT_EXECUTELONGFUNCTION if my function takes a long time, but how long is long?

December 9, 2011 Dec 9, 2011 12/9/11

Raymond Chen

A customer contacted me to tell a story and ask a question. The customer discovered that in their code base, all calls to passed the flag, regardless of whether the function actually took a long time or not. Their program creates a large number of work items at startup, and the result of passing for all of them was that the thread pool ...