- Pumping<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>An interesting snippet from Chris's last post:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>A light-weight way to pump is to call Thread.CurrentThread.Join(0).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This causes the current thread to block until the current thread dies (which isn’t going to happen) or until 0 milliseconds have elapsed – whichever happens first.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll explain later why this also performs <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">some</I> pumping and why this is a controversial aspect of the CLR.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A heavier-weight way to pump is to call GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This not only performs pumping, but it also waits for the Finalization queue to drain.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr>That actually sounds fairly useful. And it's undocumented. Doh. That means people will use it, and it'll end up either breaking apps, or being something they have to support forever.</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr> </DIV>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:06 GMT