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    Default Simple design question with passing QVector from QThread class

    Hi all, hope somebody can help me,
    Suppose you have a class which is called A(Is QThread) and in this class you have a big vector(QVector) of values(count =1000). All you want to do is to in every second in A you have to update values and some operations with this list also have to be done in Classes B and C.
    I've confusion with design. I can send QVector via signal to those classes in every interval(class A is a simple thread). But i thought that might be slow. Isn't it better to have a pointer of vector in other classes?
    Can anybody help me with this design?

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    Default Re: Simple design question with passing QVector from QThread class

    Quote Originally Posted by alizadeh91 View Post
    But i thought that might be slow.
    Try it, don't guess. A modern processor will not typically take long to copy 1000 ints or doubles, but a thousand deep copies of complex structures is a different thing. You have chosen to use threads so you must either copy the data, which happens in a signal-slot call, or share a pointer and use QMutex or another synchronisation method.

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    Default Re: Simple design question with passing QVector from QThread class

    why i have to use QMutex?

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    Default Re: Simple design question with passing QVector from QThread class

    You must not allow readers of the shared data structure to read while the state of that data structure is being changed by a writer. If the writer is preempted part way through an update and the reader gets to run it might see corrupt data structures. A mutex is one way synchronise access to shared data.
    http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread...ata_structures

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