[ENet-discuss] enet_host_service in Thread

[Philip Bennefall]

Also, if you use a timeout in ENet of 1000 and your thread has to do other 
things as well, these will be delayed in the event that packets aren't 
coming in all the time. If that thread has that one single task to perform 
then its fine, but if you want to do other things as well (aside from 
processing packets when they come in) then I'd recommend you setting the 
timeout to a much lower value.

Regards
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Soxberger" <Peter.Soxberger at gmx.net>
To: <enet-discuss at cubik.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:38 AM
Subject: [ENet-discuss] enet_host_service in Thread


Hi!

I'm calling enet_host_service in a thread. For reducing the number of calls 
I added a Sleep(1000); in my loop. Now I noticed, that I could also use the 
internal timeout of enet_host_service(). It's even better I think. Because I 
can use a higher value like 10 seconds and events are still called 
immideately when data is received, but I reduced the calls in the thread (=> 
saved performance).


So my first code was like this:

while(enet_host_service(server,&event,0) != 0)
{
//....
Sleep(1000);
}

And now it's like this:

while(enet_host_service(server,&event,10000) != 0)
{
//...
}

Now I wanted to know if the second methode is really better or am I missing 
something? Does the second methode has any disadvantages?

I know that there is something in the tutorial about the timeout mechanism 
but it wasn't clear enough.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Peter
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